A fire took the life of a man and forced more than 90 families from their homes in Yonkers earlier this week, and now, police say it was sparked by a marijuana grow lamp. AliBaumanTV spoke to a family who is now fearing for their child's health.
Renhaye Lindsay-Morgan, her husband and their 14 month-old baby, Elham, are one of nearly 100 Yonkers families who lost their home Wednesday when the Mona Lisa co-op on Bronx River Road went up in flames. Their baby suffers from short bowel syndrome and had just gotten home after a year in the hospital for surgeries and rehab.
"There's so many people that've been through there. It's like, OK, how much can you even protect him while he's here?" Lindsay-Morgan said.The fire was so devastating it left a 67-year-old resident, Michael Damiano, dead. "That's even more shocking, hearing something like that, knowing it's been happening right up under your roof," fire victim Michele Williams said.
"We're going to start to see more and more of this because of the fact that these rules are not put in place," Mayor Mike Spano said.
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