DETROIT, March 5 (UPI) -- A four-alarm fire destroyed a Detroit apartment building early Wednesday, leaving at least 25 residents homeless, four of whom were hospitalized, police said.
Three others were treated at the scene for minor injuries.
People who fled the fire in the 42-unit Jason Manor Apartments in west Detroit lost all their possessions as they escaped in sub-freezing temperatures, the Detroit Free Press reported, adding a school bus was brought to the scene to protect those who escaped the fire.
"I ran out, and my grandbaby and my daughter," resident Katherine Jackson, 55, said. "We lost everything I had."
Her daughter, Antoinette Jackson, 22, said the family did not have time to find their winter coats or her diabetes medication, and stood outside on snow-packed ground for 15 minutes before the school bus pulled up.
By midmorning, many evacuees found shelter, food and clothing at a temporary Red Cross shelter in a local church.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
