More help was on the way Thursday for the victims of an apartment fire that happened earlier this week in Norfolk.
Cellphone video captured a heroine moment Tuesday in which a man and woman were pulled out of their apartment window by Good Samaritans as their apartment building burned.
Thursday, that building was a pile of rubble.
Watch: At least 32 people displaced after apartment fire breaks out in Norfolk
At least 32 people displaced after apartment fire breaks out in Norfolk
“It’s so close to the holidays. It’s very devastating,” Alfreda Thomas said.
Thomas was organizing a supply drive from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 17 at the Walmart on Military Highway in Norfolk for the residents who now have nothing left.
“Just seeing the fire and devastation and the people coming out of the window, just thinking to myself that it could be me. So I felt like I needed to do something for these families,” Thomas said.
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