The air still smelled of smoke a day after a fire destroyed parts of a large homeless encampment in Huntsville.
City officials said there were no injuries or deaths resulting from the fire on Tuesday at the encampment on Derrick Street, the only approved place for the homeless to set up tents in Alabama’s biggest city. Huntsville’s department of community development estimates that 10 individuals are “directly affected by the fire.”
Tammy Dudley, 48, who has been living at the encampment for more than two years, said all of her belongings were destroyed in the fire, including a new tent she was planning to put up…