Rialto Apartment Fire Destroys Wedding Dress and Displaces Over a Dozen Families
Andrew Villaseñor got married on Saturday, October 4. By Monday afternoon, he was standing outside his apartment complex watching it burn.
He and Karina were out running errands when the call came in from building management. “We need to make sure the unit is vacant because your house is on fire and it’s gone,” Andrew recalled. “Our hearts dropped.”
They were not the only family who lost everything that day.
More Than a Dozen Families Had Nowhere to Go That Night
Video from the scene showed heavy smoke pouring from multiple units as displaced residents watched helplessly from outside. Temperatures that Monday were pushing close to triple digits, which did not help…