UPDATE: Seniors Rescued From Fire Won't Return Home Until 2013
A fire at a senior housing complex in Shelby Township remains under investigation.
The nearly 90 senior citizens who lived in Shelby Manor Apartment Building B Saturday morning when it caught fire will not be returning to their homes until 2013. “It’s difficult this time of year with Thanksgiving coming up that these people can’t return to their homes,” said Interim Shelby Township Fire Chief James Swinkowski. The 90 senior citizens, many immobile and wheel-chair bound had to be evacuated and some rescued from their balcony Saturday morning from the independent senior complex on Schoenherr Road, just north of Hall Road, when a fire broke out on the second floor just before 8 a.m. The fire was contained to four units in Apartment B, but the entire Building B has sustained water damage. Power, electricity and water …
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Karen Harrison
9:31 am on Wednesday, November 21, 2012
The fire fighters and Red Cross were amazing with the residents! My mother in law is displaced (living with us). The responders were very professional and caring during this devastating ordeal for these seniors. THANKS TO THEM ALL! more ›