Residents try to pick up pieces after devastating apartment fire

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Channel 9 took an eerie look inside what's left of this burned out east Charlotte apartment building.

Charred frames are all that remains of some homes. The intense heat from early Monday’s blaze at the Woodscape Apartments on Farm Pond Lane melted buildings next door

There's also growing frustration from residents after two nights on a cot in a shelter.

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"Everything is wet,” fire victim Jose Castello said. “Nothing good inside."

Many of the residents at the apartment have nothing left.

"It's bad,” fire victim Yessenia Garcia said. “It looks really awful."

Garcia wants the teddy bear her father gave her, but it’s out of reach, buried under ashes and debris.

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"Intense heat, and it radiated across the courtyard,” apartment complex owner David Fontana said. “If you turn around, you can see even 50 yards away, the siding is melted off."

Fontana believes the 30 units will be redone. He's hoping to get everyone else moved back inside of a month.

Renee Mack's unit wasn't directly damaged by the fire, but after this, she and her family are ready to move on.

"Her advance rent, if she's a month ahead, she will get that back,” Fontana said. “If she cleans out her unit, she will get her security back."

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