20 homeless after Burlington fire

BURLINGTON, Vt. -

At least 20 people have been left homeless after a fire in Burlington early Tuesday morning.

At 3 a.m., Barbara Adams woke to the sound of smoke detectors as her third-floor apartment filled with smoke.

"I ran on my porch and ran down the fire escape telling everybody to get out, get out now," said Adams.

Fire crews say the fire began on the second floor in the multi-unit apartment building at 238 College Street.

"It moved through the floor and up and through the walls, so it was a lot of work opening the walls up and finding hidden pockets of fire," said Joe Keenan, assistant fire marshal at the Burlington Fire Department.

"Seeing that fire, all that smoke coming out of these windows, and then my kitchen being lit up... that was too much, way too much," said Adams.

The 20 residents inside got out safely and waited for rescue crews to arrive.

"Everybody was saying, 'Get out, get out! Get out!' I just ran out in my boxers and then we started taking video when the fire trucks pulled up," said Jeff Abir, one of the displaced residents.

"Just looking at it, I'm like I can't believe its happening, number one and I'm like, I'm gonna be homeless, number two. I wanted to move, but not his way," said Pancho Trotman, one of the displaced residents.

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20 homeless after Burlington fire