Mott Haven residents still seeking help after being displaced by weekend fire
The FDNY said the two-alarm fire broke out inside of a wall on the second floor.
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Some Bronx residents are still searching for help, three days after a fire ripped through their apartment building.
Judy Marshall said she spent 50 years living in her Mott Haven apartment, but she’s without a home after Saturday’s fire.
“I have no place to sleep,” Marshall said. “I cannot sleep in [my apartment].”
The Red Cross said five families, including 11 children, were displaced by the fire at the complex on East 141st Street between Crimmins and Beekman avenues.
The FDNY said the two-alarm fire broke out inside of a wall on the second floor.
Mashall said the flames started in the apartment below her three-bedroom unit, and she claimed that she never heard a smoke alarm go off in the building.
“I turned around at that doorway, and my floor is filled with smoke that quick,” Marshall said.
On Tuesday, News 12 heard a maintenance crew from the management group, Diego Beekman, working in the apartment above Marshall, but that tenant upstairs declined an interview.
Meanwhile, Marshall said that after staying in temporary housing for the past few days, she doesn’t know where she’ll go from here.
“I want to cry,” Marshall said. “There is nothing else I can do.”
News 12 reached out to Diego Beekman for comment. One woman in the management office declined to go on camera, but simply said that they are in the process of finding placement for the residents.
