Woman whose 911 call led to an Orlando apartment building evacuation: ‘We thought we were going to die’

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Rescue crews in Orange County responded to an apartment complex off Sand Lake Road early Thursday morning after a woman called 911 and said she was trapped inside her apartment and afraid it could collapse.

As more than 350 people who live at The Rialto wait a second day to find out when — and if — they will be able to return home, the woman who first called 911 is sharing her story with News 6.

“I woke up with the feeling that something was wrong, and I sat up in bed and was just listening to all of this popping and cracking,” she said. “It was like settling noises that I could hear coming from our bedroom wall, around the windows, the ceiling, the bathroom. It paranoid me to the point that I sat up in bed and started crying.”…

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