Paramedics say that four people are recovering, including one who was seriously injured, after a two-alarm fire tore through an apartment building in Mott Haven early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
The fire broke out just after 5:30 a.m. along East 135th Street, according to the FDNY. Firefighters battled heavy flames as residents scrambled to escape, some climbing out shattered windows and down fire escapes to safety.<\/p>\n
Jordi said he was asleep when his sisters rushed in to wake him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt hit me in my face. I couldn\u2019t breathe. I panicked,\u201d Torres said. \u201cI took my sisters out, my brother, and we all left the house. I was without shoes. I was in my PJs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Torres said his family of eight lost nearly everything in the fire.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re a family of eight trying to survive, trying to make something for ourselves, trying to just live everyday life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Hours after the blaze, dozens of residents were still searching for a place to sleep. Torres said his family was told they could be placed in a hotel for two days.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is two days?\u201d he said. \u201cWhat is two days compared to this? This is five years of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Families were seen sifting through debris, attempting to salvage personal belongings, clothes and valuables as they waited for assistance from the American Red Cross.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s things that we were going to sell to make money in order to try to find a place to stay,\u201d Torres said.<\/p>\n
His mother, Viviana Torres, said the building superintendent offered to relocate the family \u2014 but only if they could pay three months\u2019 rent upfront.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s too much money for me,\u201d she said through tears. <\/p>\n
News 12 attempted to speak with the building superintendent about the offer, but he declined to comment.<\/p>\n
The Red Cross confirmed it is assisting approximately 60 displaced residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramedics say that four people are recovering, including one who was seriously injured, after a two-alarm fire tore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-75275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}