Residents of the Bronx building where 17 people perished in a fire returned the scene Monday to try to collect belongings — and struggled to take in the scope of the destruction that had once been their home.
Karen Dejesus, 54, a resident of the third floor where the fire broke out, had to be carried from the blaze down a fire-truck ladder. She was briefly allowed to retrieve medication from her home Sunday night.
“It looks like a war zone on the third floor,” she told The Post on Monday. “My door’s down, the wall adjacent to my apartment is broken, and all my windows are
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