‘Everything is gone:’ Residents begin to dig out after ‘suspicious’ fire destroys 18 condominiums
Soot and ashes covered nearly all of her condo, from the kitchen stove to the living room futon. With no electricity and no air conditioning, Hamilton, who suffers from stage-four melanoma, stood in the kitchen, still dazed from the fire that destroyed her unit and 17 others Sunday morning.
"It was intense, definitely intense," Hamilton said as she recalled being woken up just after
"It sucks the life out of you, watching all the stuff you had just get ruined," she added.
Residents of 18 units at Pier One Condominiums were just beginning to dig out Monday after the fire Sunday that started on the third floor -- the top floor -- and tore through the building. Most of the units on the third floor were charred beyond recognition, and many of the first- and second-floor units suffered extensive water and soot damage.
All of the residents made it out safely and no major injuries were reported, according to the
"Just like all fires, we went out and opened up a place to help people," he said. "When it's a larger fire like this, we just try to get it sorted out ... we get people real-time care as needed."
"Everything is gone, everything. I'm just sick," she said as she stood in the doorway of what was once her bedroom. "I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't know how I'm going to restart my life."
"The fire came through my bathroom ceiling and just fell through," he said, pointing to charred drywall that filled his bathtub. "I don't have fire insurance, and I don't think anybody in this complex really does."
Vaughan said he would be staying with a friend in
"It'll be chaos for a while, people are going to get their feathers ruffled," he said. "But we're going to go forward and get these things taken care of in a timely manner."
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