All residents of Barrie apartment building being relocated after fire

Every tenant will be moved out of the 28-unit D'Ambrosio Drive apartment complex in Barrie's south end during repairs following a fire last weekend.

Initial plans to move a dozen first-floor tenants back into the building that caught fire Saturday night have been changed to evacuating everyone from their homes until the building is restored.

No one's moving back in because it will be a construction site, Sean Fleming, superintendent with the Barrie Municipal Non-Profit Housing Corp., said Thursday afternoon. We're relocating every tenant until the repairs are finished.

The fire started in a unit on the second floor of the three-storey apartment building, around 9:30 p.m., Saturday.

Approximately 50 people were displaced after the blaze tore through the building, causing $500,000 in damage to the building due to smoke and water.

Only about half of the tenants have contents insurance, the Examiner has learned.

Those renters will have their furniture and personal items moved outside, washed and held in storage units on-site until they're relocated to another building, or move back in to 101 D'Ambrosio Dr.

Families without insurance were having their personal items carried out and were washing their belongings before they, too, would be put in bins and moved with them to another location.

Young families who don't have insurance believe they may have to discard many of their belongings, Alley Harrington said.

They don't want us to move things that will contaminate the new place, anything plastic or press board, the smell goes right into those things and stays, Harrington said

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All residents of Barrie apartment building being relocated after fire