11 women, baby homeless after Bridgeport shelter fire
Eleven women and a baby are homeless after a fire tore through a shelter in Bridgeport. Shelter staff credits smoke alarms and a good Samaritan for helping the victims make it out of the building alive.
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Sep 24, 2014, 12:24 AM
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Eleven women and a baby are homeless after a fire tore through a shelter in Bridgeport.
Shelter staff credits smoke alarms and a good Samaritan for helping the victims make it out of the building alive.
Fire officials say the fire was fully involved when they arrived at the Women's ReEntry Ministries at around 10 p.m. Monday.
They believe it started on the rear porch, and have deemed it suspicious. Officials say they have a person of interest.
The assistant fire chief estimates $30,000 worth of damage was done to home.
Queenie Mims, the director of the Women's ReEntry Ministries, says the building is a shelter for women battling drug and alcohol addiction.
The women have been placed in temporary homes.
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