Tenants rally for help 2 months after a 5-alarm fire ripped through their Allerton apartment building
The management office previously told News 12 that they are providing apartments in buildings that they own to families asking to transfer to other housing.
Dozens of tenants rallied for help on Monday, two months after a five-alarm fire ripped through their Allerton apartment building.
The group gathered outside of their now-shuttered building at 2910 Wallace Ave.
“We at 2910 will not be forgotten,” said Anthony Randolph, a displaced tenant. “We have over 100 families that were displaced because of the fire.”
Randolph was one of several tenants living on the top floor of the six-story building, which is where the FDNY said the electrical fire started on Jan. 10.
Randolph said the only thing that he was able to save was his son’s ashes.
“My apartment was totally gone,” Randolph said. “I saw the roof fall into my apartment.”
Tenants received temporary housing through the Red Cross.
The nonprofit and city agencies extended their stay several times.
That stay has since expired, but tenants said they need more time because they predict it will take years before they make it back into their apartments.
“Some of us even had to leave the state,” Randolph said. “We’re scattered all over, and we don’t have any answers.”
Tenants pleaded for answers from local lawmakers.
“Please hear us,” said Kelly Rowland, another displaced tenant. “Please help us! Please give us some kind of aid because there are children that can’t go to school. There are people that can’t go to work.”
The management office previously told News 12 that they are providing apartments in buildings that they own to families asking to transfer to other housing.
