VIDEO: A five-alarm fire burned through an Inwood apartment building Wednesday night, leaving nearly three dozen residents homeless for the holiday.
The fire broke out in the building on Post Avenue at around 9:15 p.m. It spread to the top floor of the apartment building and spread through the cockloft.
Nearly 200 fire and EMS members were on the scene by the time the fire was brought under control.
"It just exploded, I've never seen so much flames and it just kept igniting and igniting," resident Lizbeth Ramirez said. "And they kept trying to turn it off and it just kept kept spreading, breaking windows. Water, sadness, people crying. It's just devastating." Firefighters returned to the scene on Thursday after the fire rekindled.
The building was under renovation from a previous multiple alarm fire in January.