An 11-year-old girl who fell six stories from a family shelter in Denver on Monday suffered serious injuries but is expected to survive, Denver police say.
The girl fell from a sixth-floor room window to the roof of a ground-floor attached building, according to a Denver Fire Department spokesperson. A maintenance worker for the property retrieved the girl from the roof and took her to the ground floor entrance to meet with her parents and fire and emergency medical crews.
The shelter itself, dubbed the “Tamarac Family Shelter,” is a former Embassy Suites hotel that was bought by the City and County of Denver and converted to an emergency shelter for people who were experiencing homelessness with children. It sits near the intersection of East Hampden Avenue and South Tamarac Drive and has 205 units…