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Apartment fire in Winston-Salem displaces dozens

Twenty-seven people don't have a place to stay after an apartment fire on Motor Road.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Dozens of people were impacted by an apartment fire in Winston-Salem early Wednesday morning. 

It happened off Motor Road around 3 a.m. Winston-Salem Fire Department shared a video of the flames from a firefighter's helmet camera. 

Winston-Salem fire officials said no one was injured, but 27 people don't have a place to stay now. 

There's no word on what started the fire at this time. Firefighters are still investigating. 

Some of the impacted were children. One of them, an 8 year old said she was rushed out of bed because of the flames.  

"We were sleeping and then my mom woke us up and she said get outside because there was a fire," said Juanna Romero. Juanna and her brothers watched from a neighbors apartment across as fire fighters battled the flames.

"I thought it was a little fire and then the fire was inside the door and it just got out and spread out more and water got inside of some houses," Juanna said.

Families who lived in the apartment units below gathered to salvage their belongings. Juanna said she was only able to grab a cherished photo f herself as a baby as she ran out of the house.

"I would've taken more but I could not reach and I felt sad so I got this one, the only one that I could reach," she said.

The Red Cross is helping the families. 

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