Crime & Safety
Woodland Hills Midget Football Honors Swissvale Fire Victim
Rayseun Hall's family is honored with his jersey at ceremony last Sunday at the Wolvarena.
It's been just a little more than 11 months since Rayseun Hall died in a Swissvale house fire.
As a youth, he enjoyed spending fall days playing football with the Woodland Hills Midget Football Association. Hall had played with the Midgets until an accident left him confined to a wheelchair when he was 12 years old.
"Rayseun played for the organization for years," said Richard Jordan, vice president of the Midget football association.
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The organization honored him Sunday by presenting his family with his "25" jersey during a ceremony at the Woodland Hills Wolvarena in Turtle Creek.
Multiple fire departments, including Swissvale, responded to the apartment fire at 7:40 a.m.
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When firefighters arrived, several people had reportedly jumped from the building and Hall was trapped inside.
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