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All Adel Ordonez could hear was the fire alarm and cries for help from his neighbors.
“So I went over there, I took a look inside their entire wall was up in flames,” he told CBS2. “I told them ‘I can’t help you, you have to leave’.”
Ordonez banged on doors trying to help get everyone out of the four-story apartment building on Nepperhan Avenue as the fire spread to three-alarms. His focus then turned to his fiance, who is four-months pregnant.
“I knew I had to get her out of there fast,” he said.
Roughly 75 Yonkers firefighters arrived at the fast-moving blaze
Mya’s family is among at least 50 people who will need to be relocated. Officials say the Westchester County Office of Emergency Management and American Red Cross will work to accommodate those who were displaced.
“Everyone’s really shaken up and we don’t know where we’re gonna stay tonight or tomorrow so that’s really our biggest worry,” Ordonez said.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation, but officials say it appears accidental.
Interview of Adel Ordonez with CBS News
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/05/12/dozens-displaced-after-3-alarm-fire-rips-through-apartment-building-in-yonkers/
“So I went over there, I took a look inside their entire wall was up in flames,” he told CBS2. “I told them ‘I can’t help you, you have to leave’.”
Ordonez banged on doors trying to help get everyone out of the four-story apartment building on Nepperhan Avenue as the fire spread to three-alarms. His focus then turned to his fiance, who is four-months pregnant.
“I knew I had to get her out of there fast,” he said.
Roughly 75 Yonkers firefighters arrived at the fast-moving blaze
Mya’s family is among at least 50 people who will need to be relocated. Officials say the Westchester County Office of Emergency Management and American Red Cross will work to accommodate those who were displaced.
“Everyone’s really shaken up and we don’t know where we’re gonna stay tonight or tomorrow so that’s really our biggest worry,” Ordonez said.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation, but officials say it appears accidental.
Interview of Adel Ordonez with CBS News
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/05/12/dozens-displaced-after-3-alarm-fire-rips-through-apartment-building-in-yonkers/
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