Buffalo Home Fire Displaces 7 People — Red Cross Offers Critical Support
I’ve seen house fires before. But when you hear about seven people—including two children—losing their home on a quiet Sunday evening, it hits different.
The fire broke out just before 8 p.m. at 42 Garner Avenue, right in Buffalo’s Upper West Side. According to the Buffalo Fire Department, flames started on the attic floor of a two-and-a-half-story home. The structure was fully occupied.
It didn’t spread far thanks to a fast response, but the damage was still serious—$40,000 to the building, and another $20,000 to everything inside. For the five adults and two kids now displaced, that’s not just numbers. That’s clothes, beds, maybe school supplies, maybe photos they’ll never get back…