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Picking Up the Pieces After Bloomsburg Fire

Picking Up the Pieces After Bloomsburg Fire - Monday, October 26, 2009 at 5:50PM EST

Reported by: Mike Trim
Monday, Oct 26, 2009 @ 05:50pm EDT
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY -- Investigators are searching for the cause of a major fire in Bloomsburg. More than 20 people are homeless and 5 businesses were destroyed after a Sunday morning fire.

Many of the homeless are students at Bloomsburg University. Bloomsburg University senior Justin Schnalzer said, "We're trying to look for an apartment now, you know, everything can be replaced I mean we have our lives that's the most important thing."

Bloomsburg University senior Kirsten Zeltner said, "Thank God we weren't here because I wouldn't have gotten up because I would have been sleeping."

A laundry mat, beauty salon, camera store, law offices and an investment firm are all destroyed. Elmer Robinson works at Oppenheimer Investments next door and says his neighbors are devastated. "All of them were. It's just a sad disappointment that occurs when you have these kind of fires. What can you say?" said Robinson.

The Bloomsburg Fire Department says the fire likely started in a kitchen on the second floor of one apartment. A state police fire marshal will make an official ruling on the cause likely by the end of the week.

The man who lives in the second story apartment was flown to the Lehigh Valley Hospital burn unit. His condition is unknown.

Right now, people are trying pick up what they can from the rubble. None of the business owners were here Monday afternoon.

Ken Conner of Bloomsburg took pictures of a scene he'd thought he'd never see. "Well it's very sad I was here late yesterday when they were retrieving items from the building and giving them to the people it was pretty sad," said Conner.

A firefighter also had to be taken to the hospital with chest pains Sunday morning. He'll be okay,

People displaced from this fire say Red Cross and the University is helping them recover from this fire. Several drives are underway on campus for the victims.
 


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