WORCESTER — The smoke was coming through a closet door at the back of his second floor apartment on Jaques Avenue when Luchaine Whyte first noticed it at around 7:15 p.m. He told his husband and they called their landlady, whom they affectionately refer to as "Miss Lorraine." She wondered if it was a smell from someone smoking. But within minutes, the smoke was getting thicker. Whyte opened the door to check and knew they had to leave. He was barefoot and in "long Johns" as he made his way down the stairs without the leg brace he uses to walk. His husband, Rudy Griffin-Whyte, ran upstairs to warn Lorraine Adams and her husband.