The Free Press, Mankato, MN - Displaced tenants getting help

Wed, Nov 25 2009

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Volunteers carried donated quilts Monday into Montgomery City Hall. The quilts and other items will go to the 43 tenants displaced by an apartment-building fire Saturday.
John Cross / The Free Press

The entrance overhang of Park Manor Apartments in Montgomery bears the effects of a Saturday fire. It will be about a year before tenants can return to a rebuilt facility.
John Cross / The Free Press

Georgianna Edel, 95 and Park Manor’s oldest resident, said she was stunned by the intensity of the fire.
John Cross / The Free Press

Jenny Malmanger / The Free Press

Displaced tenants getting help

By Brian Ojanpa
The Free Press

Among those struggling with their loss is 95-year-old Georgianna Edel, the building’s oldest resident.

She’s lived there 24 years, has 73 grandchildren, and fought back tears as she recounted the chaos of the late afternoon fire.

“It went down quick,” she said. “One of the (firemen) knocked on the door and said, ‘C’mon, you’re got to get out of here.’ You should have seen the flames, how high they were.”

Latest updates on relief efforts will be posted on the city’s Web site and on the city’s information line, 507-364-5666.

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