Tenants displaced by Bronx apartment fire now booted from hotel
They said the Red Cross can no longer afford to put them up. Some are going to shelters, but others have no place to go.
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They said the Red Cross can no longer afford to put them up. Some are going to shelters, but others have no place to go.
Several spoke to CBS New York on Thursday night about what they no longer have due to last week's blaze.
The officers found a 96-year-old man, a 91-year-old man and a 99-year-old woman who needed help getting out.
An estimated 450 residents who live in the complex are out of their homes ahead of the holiday.
The blaze started at around 7 p.m. Monday on Kingsbridge Road near University Avenue.
The fire marshal was trying to determine the cause of the blaze at a six-story building on Georgia Avenue.
Police said the three children were taken to the hospital in critical condition with symptoms of smoke inhalation.
Officials said the kids were left home alone and were found unconscious. The father of two of the children faces child endangerment and other charges.
The fire broke out at around 2 p.m. on the sixth floor of a building on Rockaway Parkway near Winthrop Street.
The fire broke out at around 9:30 a.m. in Midwood. Firefighters responded to a blaze on the top floor.
The FDNY said it started around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday at a five-story building on East 242nd Street.
Dozens of families have been in touch with the Red Cross after their apartments were damaged.
A man who just happened to be there risked his own life to help and later spoke exclusively to CBS2.
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Fire officials say a 45-year-old man was pulled from the burning building, but later died at Lincoln Hospital.
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Residents say for years they've been complaining about the residents in the unit where the fire started.
More than 100 firefighters rushed to the building at Evergreen and Westchester avenues.
Residents in 54 units of the 104-unit building have been displaced.
The East Flatbush apartment blaze claimed the life of 13-year-old Dillon Waldren-Dickson.
Officials said five other people were injured. CBS2's Kevin Rincon has more on the life of the boy killed.
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Flames broke out on the top floor of the five-story building at 1316 Morris Ave., at around 10:45 a.m.
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