WILL LOWERY SAYS IT WAS SHORTLY AFTER 11 Monday night HE HEARD A LOUD BOOM IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD THEN SAW FLAMES SOT: I KNOW THERE’S AN OLD MAN WHO STAY UPSTAIRS I COULDNT’ GET TO HIM HE SAYS SOON AFTGER THE ENTIRE APARTMENT BUILDING ON NIAGARA STREET IN THE FALLS WAS ENGULFED IN FLAMES HE HEARD HIS NEIGHBOR SCREAMING FOR HELP— AND HE TRIED TO GET TO HIM…..
SOT: HE WAS AN OLDER GUY I HEARD HIM SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT PLASTIC HE WOULD HAVE HAD TO JUMP— HE COULDNT’ GET OUT THROUGH THE FRONT BUT LOWERY SAYS THE FLAMES WERE SO HOT— HE WASN’T ABLE TO HELP HIS NEIGHBOR.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT SHOWED UP SHORTLY AFTER.
SOT: THE FIRE WAS SO INTENSE THERE WAS NO WAY WE COULD GET INSIDE Niagara Falls FIRE CHIEF JOE PEDULLA SAYS A PERSON’S BODY WAS RECOVERED THIS MORNING NEIGHBORS SAY IT’S WADE—THEIR LONGTIME NEIGHBOR AND FRIEND KYLE SAYS HE HAD JUST TAKEN WADE TO THE FALLS YESTERDAY SOT: IT’S SAD I’M STILL TRYING TO PROCESS EVERYTHING NEIGHBORS SAY RECENTLY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN THROWING FIREWORKS THROUGH SOME HOMES IN THE AREA FIRE CHIEF PEDULLA SAYS A FIRE THAT BROKE OUT A COUPLE DAYS AGO ACROSS THE STREET WAS CAUSED BY FIREWORKS— THE CHIEF IS NOT RULING ANYTHING OUT SOT: WE’RE LOOKING INTO EVERYTHING STANDUP: NF FIRE CHIEF JOE PADULLA TELLS ME THE FIRE APPEARED TO BE GOING FOR QUITE SOME TIME BEFORE SOMEONE CALLED 911 HE SAYS THE FD WAS HERE WITHIN 90 SECONDS BUT SAYS IF THAT CALL WAS PLACED A LITTLE EARLIER THERE MAY HAVE BEEN A DIFFERENT OUTCOME HB 7EWN One person dead after Falls fire.
Hannah Buehler reports.
