A fire, suspected arson, broke out early Tuesday morning on Evergreen Avenue, between Jefferson and Troutman. It broke out around 3:00 AM, on the first floor of a four floor apartment building and then moved upward, consuming the building. Per FDNY, a total of nine, including a child and two firefighters were injured and all have been forced to out of their homes for the time being.

Cinzia Chiesa lives next door and started a GoFundMe for the families displaced. “There are around 30 people out of housing right now,” she estimates on the page. She’s raised nearly $6,000 so far. She says she had been in her apartment when she heard the fire start.

“I started to hear voices screaming … All I saw was thick black smoke coming out of the window of the building next to mine. I saw young children and families being lifted out of their windows by the FDNY, with black smoke filling the space behind them. The firefighters were breaking every window on the front of the building.”