Miami Gardens apartment building fire displaces 23 people — including 12 children
.jpg "About 23 people, including 12 children, were affected by a Miami Gardens apartment fire. Local Red Cross volunteers are helping to aid affected families.")
An apartment fire affected 23 people from six units in Miami Gardens on Tuesday, the American Red Cross said.
Around 1:40 p.m., Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units worked to extinguish a second-alarm fire in the area of Northwest 213th Terrace and Ninth Place, fire rescue tweeted.
Miami Herald news partner CBS4 reported that 20 fire-rescue units were called.
“Especially in a fire like this, it happened on the third floor, and it could spread easily through the attic, so we always want to get ahead of the fire to prevent it from damaging any more units than it has to,” Horacio Rodriguez, the division chief of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, told CBS 4.
Local Red Cross volunteers helped coordinate emergency aid to 23 people from six apartment units, including 12 children, the organization said in an email.
Henry Mathieu, a resident of the building, told CBS4, “You can see through the third floor. You can see through it. It’s bad. It’s real bad.”
This story was originally published December 14, 2021 at 9:52 PM.
