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Bay Ridge residents are banding together to help victims of a devastating July 30 fire that injured 28 people and left dozens homeless.
Concerned neighbors are hosting a donation drive on Saturday, Aug. 22 for residents of the four-story building at the corner of Third Avenue and 68th Street that was engulfed in flames early on July 30, leaving six civilians and 22 firefighters with minor injuries.
“A lot of the people who live there lost everything,” said Linda Feeley, a former superintendent of the building who is organizing the donation drive. “I decided to do something for them to help them out a little bit.”
Big-hearted Brooklynites can donate men’s and women’s clothing, toys, bedding, furniture, toiletries and other household wares at the event in the parking lot of the Guild for Exceptional Children on 68th Street between Third Avenue and Ridge Boulevard from 11 am and 3 pm.
This charity event — which was put together with help from Councilman Vince Gentile (D–Bay Ridge) and state Sen. Marty Golden (R–Bay Ridge) — follows last weekend’s fundraiser for victims of the fire hosted by the Third Avenue watering hole Shenanigans.
Cynthia Perez — the building’s superintendent — told The Brooklyn Paper that she is thankful for the help, but that residents are still desperately in need.
“There are some apartments that are just so burnt that you can’t take anything out of them, and there are others where there is so much water damage that there is nothing to retrieve — and everything that can be taken out still smells like smoke,” said Perez, who lost about 85 percent of her belongings and is now living with in-laws.
The blaze totally destroyed two top-floor apartments as well as a ground-floor beauty salon and the Sunnydale Deli.
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