Apartment Fire Leaves Irish Workers Homeless
By: Web Producer
Updated: March 18, 2008
Four people from Ireland here on work visas are without homes. A fire at their apartment complex, Cambridge Arms, destroyed many of their belongings.
Kayleigh Dentons been living in the U.S. for about four months. She and co-worker, Sharon Finlay, are both from Ireland. They have visas to work at Ri Ra Irish Pub in Evansville. They both lived in the Cambridge Arms Apartment Complex that caught fire early Saturday morning.
Now Denton, Finlay and two more of their Irish friends who lived there are without homes, but both are thankful that they didnt lose more
Theyre currently staying in a hotel, compliments of Ri Ra, and hope to move back into the complex within a week.
Four people were taken to the hospital after the fire due to smoke inhalation, and one for a head injury, but officials say everyone is fine. The cause has not yet been determined.
