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Fire destroys six apartments in Texas City
By Nathan Smith
The Daily News
April 01, 2004
TEXAS CITY — For a few minutes as she lay in bed on Wednesday morning, Janet Robbins wasn’t sure if she was really awake.
“I woke up tasting something funny,” said Robbins, who is deaf. “I couldn’t really tell if I was still asleep or not.”
As the Texas City resident got up and began to move through her apartment to her patio, she became more and more certain that something was wrong.
“I went and opened the door to the patio and all I could see was black smoke,” said Robbins. “I didn’t even know what was going on — it was really scary.”
Without her hearing aids, Robbins could not hear the fire alarms that were going off in her apartment on the first floor of Building Six in The Breakers apartment complex on Monticello Street. At 9:43 a.m., a fire had broken out in another first-floor unit in the building. It eventually consumed six apartments and filled another 10 units in the building with smoke.
“There were about 14 people in the building when the fire started, but we didn’t have any injuries,” said Capt. David Zacherl of the Texas City Fire Department. “It started on the first floor and spread through four apartments and then into the attic.”
The blaze took 11 firefighters from Texas City and three from La Marque 30 minutes to get under control and another 30 to extinguish. Six apartments in the building were destroyed and another four ruined with water. All of the units were filled with smoke.
Zacherl said it could be days before an investigation yielded an explanation of the cause of the fire. Janet Robbins and her fellow residents of Building Six, however, concerned themselves on Wednesday with a more immediate question: What to do now?
“I found out about it when I got a call at my job,” said first-floor resident Susan Taylor, who works as an operator for Southwestern Bell. “The fire department showed me that my apartment is smoke-damaged; I don’t know what I’m going to do. I really don’t know.”
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http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=19238
Wow, what a lucky for deafies who could escape but others survives
By Nathan Smith
The Daily News
April 01, 2004
TEXAS CITY — For a few minutes as she lay in bed on Wednesday morning, Janet Robbins wasn’t sure if she was really awake.
“I woke up tasting something funny,” said Robbins, who is deaf. “I couldn’t really tell if I was still asleep or not.”
As the Texas City resident got up and began to move through her apartment to her patio, she became more and more certain that something was wrong.
“I went and opened the door to the patio and all I could see was black smoke,” said Robbins. “I didn’t even know what was going on — it was really scary.”
Without her hearing aids, Robbins could not hear the fire alarms that were going off in her apartment on the first floor of Building Six in The Breakers apartment complex on Monticello Street. At 9:43 a.m., a fire had broken out in another first-floor unit in the building. It eventually consumed six apartments and filled another 10 units in the building with smoke.
“There were about 14 people in the building when the fire started, but we didn’t have any injuries,” said Capt. David Zacherl of the Texas City Fire Department. “It started on the first floor and spread through four apartments and then into the attic.”
The blaze took 11 firefighters from Texas City and three from La Marque 30 minutes to get under control and another 30 to extinguish. Six apartments in the building were destroyed and another four ruined with water. All of the units were filled with smoke.
Zacherl said it could be days before an investigation yielded an explanation of the cause of the fire. Janet Robbins and her fellow residents of Building Six, however, concerned themselves on Wednesday with a more immediate question: What to do now?
“I found out about it when I got a call at my job,” said first-floor resident Susan Taylor, who works as an operator for Southwestern Bell. “The fire department showed me that my apartment is smoke-damaged; I don’t know what I’m going to do. I really don’t know.”
To view article online, please go to:
http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=19238
Wow, what a lucky for deafies who could escape but others survives
