Whitey Ford
11-28-2019, 12:09 AM
5 dead, 3 hurt in ‘devastating’ Minneapolis high-rise fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqbGJdaGCV4&feature=youtu.be
Five people died and three were injured when a fire broke out on the 14th floor of a public housing high-rise in a heavily immigrant neighborhood of Minneapolis early Wednesday.
The building is in part of Minneapolis known as Little Mogadishu for the many Somali immigrants who have settled there.
Abdi Warsame, a City Council member who toured the floor that burned, expressed amazement that more people weren’t killed. The 25-story building caters to seniors and singles.
“It was absolutely gutted,” said Warsame, who is Somali-American. “It was horrendous.”
On Wednesday evening, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office identified four of the five people who died: Amatalah Adam, 78; Maryan Mohamud, 69; Nadifa Mohamud, 67, all women; and a man, Jerome Stuart, 59. All four died of smoke inhalation at the scene, the medical examiner’s office said. The name of the fifth victim was not released, but authorities said all the people who died were adults.
https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/content/news/5-dead-3-hospitalized-after-fire-at-Minneapolis-high-rise-565526022.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqbGJdaGCV4&feature=youtu.be
Five people died and three were injured when a fire broke out on the 14th floor of a public housing high-rise in a heavily immigrant neighborhood of Minneapolis early Wednesday.
The building is in part of Minneapolis known as Little Mogadishu for the many Somali immigrants who have settled there.
Abdi Warsame, a City Council member who toured the floor that burned, expressed amazement that more people weren’t killed. The 25-story building caters to seniors and singles.
“It was absolutely gutted,” said Warsame, who is Somali-American. “It was horrendous.”
On Wednesday evening, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office identified four of the five people who died: Amatalah Adam, 78; Maryan Mohamud, 69; Nadifa Mohamud, 67, all women; and a man, Jerome Stuart, 59. All four died of smoke inhalation at the scene, the medical examiner’s office said. The name of the fifth victim was not released, but authorities said all the people who died were adults.
https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/content/news/5-dead-3-hospitalized-after-fire-at-Minneapolis-high-rise-565526022.html