Tenants still homeless after Hempstead blaze
Photo credit: Newsday/Jessica Rotkiewicz | Displaced residents still wait outside, almost four days after a massive fire destroyed 12 apartments and forced the evacualtion of 120 families. (June 20, 2012)
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A faulty standpipe will delay for at least two more days the return of up to 120 families left homeless by a fire Sunday in their Hempstead apartment building, officials said.
The announcement from the Nassau fire marshal's office Wednesday tested the patience of already frustrated residents of 590 Fulton Ave. whose lives were upended by the blaze.
"They keep dropping the ball," said...
