Residents Displaced In King Of Prussia Apartment Building Fire

WELL COME BACK TO CBS-3 AT4:00 NOW STREAMING ON CBSNPHILLY I'M ALEXANDRIA OF THIS.I'M NATASHA BROWN.THANKS FOR JOINING US.RAGING FIRE INJURES MORE THANA DOZEN PEOPLE INCLUDINGSEVERAL FIRST RESPONDERS ATKING OF PRUSSIA APARTMENTBUILDING."EYEWITNESS NEWS" REPORTERDAN KOOB IS LIVE WITH MOREOBJECT HOW PEOPLE ARERECOVERING, THIS AFTERNOON,DAN.REPORTER: AROUND 2:00 INTHE AFTERNOON SOME DISPLACEDRESIDENT DID COME BACK TOTHESE APARTMENTS, IN KING OFPRUSSIA TO RETRIEVE SOME OFTHEIR ITEMS BUT THEY CANNOT GOBACK INSIDE.CREWS HAVE BEEN HERETHROUGHOUT THE DAY MORNING,NOON AND AS WE GO IN THEEVENING HOURS TRYING TO PATCHUP WHAT THEY CAN OF THISBUILDING, AFTER THIS TWO ALARMFIRE RIPPED THROUGH AROUND10:20 LAST NIGHT.UPPER MERION TOWNSHIPRELEASING INFORMATION A SHORTTIME AGO ABOUT IT SAYING FIRESTARTED ON THE THIRD FLOOR.THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE THOUGHREMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION ATTHIS HOUR AND ACCORDING TOAUTHORITIES MEMBERS OF THEFIRE DEPARTMENT HELPED RESCUEMANY TRAPPED RESIDENTS, ANDGOT THEM OUT OF THE BUILDINGBUT THERE IS STILL MAYBE SOMERESIDENT INSIDE OF THEHOSPITAL TONIGHT.FOURTEEN PEOPLE IN TOTAL,INCLUDING FIVE POLICE OFFICERSAND ONE PARAMEDIC WERETRANSPORTED.OFFICERS AND PARAMEDIC TREATEDFOR SMOKE INHALATION ANDRELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL BUTEIGHT RESIDENTS WERE TAKEN FORTREATMENT AS WELL.THREE REMAIN IN THE HOSPITAL,AS OF THIS MORNING.ALL OF THE RESIDENTS IN THISPARTICULAR BUILDING HAVE BEENDISPLACED.WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLEIS EXACTLY IT BUT WE ARE TOLDTHERE ARE 36 APARTMENTS INTHIS BUILDING ALONE.THE KINGS WAY APARTMENTSWORKING WITH THE RED CROSS TOFIND SUITABLE SITUATIONS FOREVERYONE.MEANWHILE, NEIGHBORS TRYING TODO THEIR PART TO HELP OUT.WE MET ONE WOMAN WHO ISING TOGO PASS OUT PAIRS OF HER OWNSHOES, TO PEOPLE WHO COULD NOTREACH THEIR BELONGINGS.THEY DIDN'T HAVE SHOES ON,ALL OF THEIR THINGS.SO YOU CAN LOOK INSIDE,EVERYTHING IS DESTROYED.I HAVE KIDS SO IT ISDEVASTATING TO BE HONEST, THATIS WHY I WON'T TAKE OFF MYSUNGLASSES BECAUSE I WILL CRY.MY SON WAS HERE LAST NIGHT,15, AND HE WAS UPSET, AND ITIS BEYOND SCARY.IT IS NOT GOOD BUT, YOUKNOW, THE PEOPLE HERE AREGREAT.THEY HAVE A GREAT MAINTENANCECREW AND THEY WILL FIX THIS UPAND MAKE SURE EVERYBODY ELSEIS SAFE.REPORTER: WHEN WE FIRST METKIM, SHE HAD ONE SOCK ON ANDONE SANDAL.HER 1 FOOT WAS BAREFOOTBECAUSE SHE WAS GIVING AWAYUGGS SHE WAS WEARING TO ADISPLACED RESIDENT HAD NOSHOES ON.SHE SAID LAST NIGHT WASPERFECT FILING SEEING PEOPLEJUMP OUT OF THEIR BALCONY, OFFTO THE GROUND JUST TO GET OUTOF THE WAY, OF THE FIRE.TONIGHT INVESTIGATIONCONTINUES FROM UPPER MERIONFIRE DEPARTMENT, INTO EXACTLYWHAT HAPPENED HERE.