Firefighters respond to a partial building collapse on West Burnside Avenue and Phelan Place in the Bronx, New York City, on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. - Gardiner Anderson/New York Daily News/TNS
NEW YORK — When a seven-story Bronx apartment building partially collapsed Monday afternoon, creating a jaw-dropping scene of devastation, some residents were away on vacation, others at work and still others were at home, forced to spring into action to save themselves.
Let’s go, let’s go, just leave everything,” tenant Sadie Martinez recounted telling her brother before they snatched up her 1-year-old and the family dog. “I was scared for my baby, not me.”
