Several Cubans are among those displaced by a large arson fire that consumed the Temple Court apartment complex in the city of Miami.
At least 47 affected people, most of them elderly and disabled, spent the early hours of Tuesday in a shelter set up by the city authorities in José Martí Park, in Little Havana, where the authorities, members of the Red Cross and machinery arrived. to reprint the official documents of those who lost all their belongings, reported Telemundo 51.
Mayor Francis Suárez stated that they are working with the private sector to relocate the displaced people to hotels, where they will spend the next two weeks while their relocation to new homes is managed.
The Red Cross was responsible for replacing the medications that the elderly with chronic conditions could not save.
“I didn’t sleep last night, no one imagined this,” declared Isabel González, an elderly woman who was left homeless.
Miguel Ángel Gabela, Miami Commissioner for District 1, reported that several housing units have been obtained for some: “I came this morning because, as I promised you last night, my office has obtained 19 units to make available to them,” said Gabela. .
Regarding the alleged perpetrator of the fire and the pain that those affected are going through, many were surprised. “They say it was conflictive (…) how can a person put fire into a building?” asked a neighbor.
The suspect behind the massive fire on monday He lived in one of the apartments there.
This is Juan Francisco Figueroa, 73, who was arrested and transferred to the TGK prison in Miami-Dade early Tuesday morning.
The defendant fired several shots and wounded a building employee and then set the building on fire.
Figueroa, who faces charges of attempted murder with a firearm, felony and setting arson, acknowledged what he had done and “that he expected to be in prison for the rest of his life,” the arrest report states.
