By The newspaper
Jun 22, 2024, 08:47 AM EDT
María Arreola (47) and her son Andrew Salomon (26) died when their home caught fire yesterday morning in New Rochelle (NY).
The tragedy happened at 30 Eastchester Road, across from Iona University, shortly after 6:30 a.m. Friday, he said. News 12. The cause of the fire is unclear, but the 3rd floor apartment had a “hoarding situation,” so firefighters had to climb over and through debris in heavy smoke to reach the two victims.
I opened the door and there was a wave of smoke, so I woke up my mom and said, ‘We have to get out of here.’”
The dangerous situation forced all residents of the seven-story building to evacuate. Once the flames were controlled, some items thrown outside the victims’ apartment were so many that they occupied eight mini garbage containers and there were still objects inside, he reported. PIX11News.
Resident Christopher Gilchrist said spaces in the building filled with smoke and it was immediately clear that the situation was life-threatening.
Jeremiah Batista and his mother live directly above the apartment that caught fire, where they had just moved just four days earlier. “I opened the door and there was a wave of smoke, so I woke up my mom and said, ‘We have to get out of here.’”
At the end of May, a 65-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of starting a fire that killed her boyfriend in Brooklyn (NYC).
Also last month, the NYPD determined that Marie Helene Michaud, a 96-year-old immigrant great-grandmother, was the victim of a homicide because the fire that ended her life in Queens (NYC) was arson. A neighbor said the tragedy began with the intentional burning of a mattress.
In September, a man was sentenced to nearly three decades in prison for repeatedly stalking and threatening his ex-girlfriend and her three children until he burned down their Queens apartment because he ended the relationship without her consent.
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