Fire burns 75 tenants’ homes to ground

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The apartment that burned up in flames over the weekend was home to 75 tenants who are now homeless.

There is not mucht left of the complex. The roof has completely collapsed, along with some of the sidewalls.

A tenant said the fire started in the laundry room, she tried to extinguish it but the smoke and flames were too fierce.

Some of the residents spent the night at a shelter set up by the American Cross at Highland High School.

Saturday tenants were moved to hotels.

“We’ll have people there at least over night maybe another night if necessary, at that point we'll be working with the property management and the city to find out if we can find some longer term accommodations if it’s necessary," Arthur Bishop of the Red Cross said.

The Red Cross is asking everyone displaced by the fire to contact them so they can help get people back on their feet.