WOODSTOCK, Ill. (CBS) — Fourteen Woodstock families who were displaced after a fire two weeks before Thanksgiving got a helping hand ahead of Christmas.
When the fire ripped through the two-story apartment complex at 710 of St. John’s Rd. on the night of Tuesday, Nov. 12, crews spent two hours battling the flames. Douglas Webster, 54, died, and most of the residents lost everything.
“I was in the bed. I was getting ready to fall asleep. All of a sudden, I hear the banging, and I’m like what the heck is going on? I’m thinking the neighbors are in a fight,” said fire victim said fire victim, Jenelle Dail. “I open the door, and there’s a firefighter telling me to get out of the building; that the building is about to come down—and that was terrifying,”…