A three-story Williamsburg apartment building was the scene of an early Monday morning fire that has left two people dead and about 10 homeless.
At approximately 1:30 a.m., nearby residents heard an explosion, the New York Daily News reported. Then blaze began in a rear apartment of a building at 40 Richardson St. and soon engulfed two floors. RELATED:Police suspect serial arsonist behind Queens fire Authorities initially found one body in the blaze,ABC stated in a related article, and later pulled a second body from the building. Evacuated residents in their sleepwear were on the street outside the building as firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze, the Daily News added.
“If I even knew it was going to be like this I would have grabbed my cell phone and all, I didn’t expect nothing to be like this,” resident Scott Darragh said to ABC. “I’m safe and I can’t find my two partners, I don’t know where they are.” One firefighter sustained injuries, ABC said, also stating that the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
RELATED: VIDEO: Newborn rescued from Queens house fire Approximately 10 residents are now homeless because of the blaze, ABC added.