Gas Leak Is Compounding Problem

POSTED: 9:27 pm PDT July 19, 2004
UPDATED: 11:02 pm PDT July 19, 2004

COVINA, Calif. -- Approximately 100 people were still displaced from their homes Monday after an early-morning fire at a three-story Covina apartment complex, Red Cross officials said.

The figure is based on an estimate of three people living in each apartment made uninhabitable as a result of Sunday's blaze at 1375 W. San Bernardino Road, said Derrick Andrade of the San Gabriel Valley chapter of the American Red Cross.

Only five people stayed overnight at a shelter the Red Cross set up at Northview High School at 1315 W. Cypress Ave., Andrade said. The others found alternate housing, most likely at a hotel, he said.

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