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Authorities: 4 buildings destroyed, over 30 families displaced after major fire breaks out in Yonkers
News 12 Staff
Updated on:May 23, 2021, 9:18pm EDT
A major fire in Yonkers injured several people and displaced dozens of residents on Sunday.
Deputy Chief Joseph Citrone, of the Yonkers Fire Department, says four buildings on Maple Street were damaged and about 32 families were displaced.
He says it started as a four-alarm fire but quickly escalated to a general alarm.
Citrone says every department in the city responded to the scene, along with crews from New Rochelle and Greenville.
Officials say one resident and at least 13 firefighters were injured.
Firefighters say they received a call just after 4 p.m. about furniture that had caught fire at one of the homes. It was so terrible. Everything was pitch black. You couldn t breathe, eyes started getting watery, Marcos Archindia recalled. He said his brother saw the flames started. He said it started on one of the mattresses they had back there because that backyard was filled with garbage bags and mattresses; it was really dirty, Archindia told NBC New York. So I don t know what happened. They saw the fire started. They turned back and in a minute, it was 20 feet in the air.