Firefighters were coming up the stairs as people with children, pets and the some elderly tenants moved slowly downward. “I really thought I was going to die today,” Mathieson said hours later. Instead, he ran to the 21st floor, where he lives, to alert friends and other tenants he knew. A resident of the building with burns on his arms was hanging from a window as if he was going to jump. A fire at the Barrington Plaza high-rise in 2013 injured several people and displaced more than 100.

Source: ABC News January 29, 2020 17:29 UTC