Patrick Garcia Jr. and his sisters Patricia and Theresa were students in high school, college and middle school respectively, when they heard about a conflagration at the family laundry business in San Antonio run by their father Patrick Garcia Sr. in June 2001. Horrified, they watched TV news coverage of the fire, which the family believes was caused by electrical surges that reduced the plant to rubble.
 
“The TV crews had been here while the fire was actually going on at the time,” Theresa recalls of the June 25 incident that gutted the 70,000 square-foot healthcare laundry ...