Breaking overnight: Multiple injuries are reported following a fire at an apartment building in White Plains, where some people were seen jumping from windows to escape. elijahwestbrook has the latest from the scene.
Multiple people are being treated for injuries after a fire broke out overnight at an apartment building in White Plains.
The fire was reported just before midnight on the second floor of the building on Lake Street off North Broadway. Residents could be seen jumping from windows to escape. One woman told CBS2 her daughter lived in one of the badly affected apartments. The Red Cross is now assisting her and her two young children.
"They've lost everything. We get to go back in, the apartment is complete destroyed. We tried to get baby bottles, the bottles are burst. Everything is destroyed," Pearl Davis said."Her mother lives with her and my son, who's her husband. All of her medication, everything. They couldn't get anything, they came out barefoot."Meanwhile, the cause of the fire is under investigation.
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