Apartment Building Destroyed
Citizens’ left wondering where to go from here.
By James Rapien
At 10 a.m. Wednesday morning Firefighters’ responded to a call at the Sycamore Apartments on 122 South Congress Street. By the time crews arrived, the fire had already engulfed the building. 30 Cincinnati firefighters’ fought the blaze that would continue for about three more hours.
There are around 50 people that live in the Sycamore Apartments and now they are left with nothing but the clothes on their back. Thankfully, everyone made it out of the building without life threatening injuries. Four residents were taken to University Hospital. The victim’s names and condition have not been released at this time.
77-year-old Mason Monroe escaped safely from his 6th floor apartment. Monroe was grateful for the firefighters’ help even though he had all of his possessions destroyed saying: “the smoke was intense on the floors above us, and I’m sure some people there would not have made it out had it not been for the firefighters.”
The damage to the apartment building is estimated at $250,000. The cause of the fire is not known at this time, but it is under investigation. Building manager Steve Wilson said that residents of the lower six floors escaped safely and did not need any medical treatment.
This blaze was not routine for the fire department by any means. Cincinnati Fire Captain Marvin Jones told reporters: “It was one of the worst fires I’ve seen in the past couple years. Several people had been trapped by the smoke and flames, and we were fortunate that were able to get them out alive.”
In the first paragraph the word "firefighters" does not need to be capitalized on the first line and the apostrophe at the end of the word is unnecessary in both cases. Also, the call would be from the apartments.
ReplyDeleteIn the second paragraph you should say there were people that lived in the apartments since the apartments no longer exist and since you are talking about multiple people you want to have consistency, so it would be "their backs" and "conditions," etc.
In the third paragraph you want a comma before the word "saying," you should probably also change "saying" to "he said," or "he was heard saying," if you really have a thing for the word "saying." You want to capitalize the "t" at the beginning of the quotation in this paragraph as well.
I think that's it. It is a fairly interesting piece, and I like newspaper styled articles.