LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Demolition has begun on an apartment complex deemed a "total loss" after a massive fire earlier this week.
More than 100 firefighters responded to the massive inferno at the 310 @ NULU apartment complex on Monday. The blaze caused the interior of the building to collapse.
Louisville Fire (LFD) officials said no one was injured, however all 64 residents were displaced. Some of those residents were University of Louisville students.
On Friday, giant excavators could be seen tearing down the building's exterior walls.
Emergency crews had been watching the structure for days to ensure the exterior walls of the building would not collapse, even evacuating two nearby buildings.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation. LFD Chief Brian O’Neill said it would be difficult to determine a cause as investigators can't enter the building due to safety concerns.
Arson investigators are only able to use drone footage and information from crews' initial arrival on scene.
It's unclear how long it will take for crews to completely demolish the building.
Dozens watched on in awe from the ground, Friday, as debris and personal belongings fell from the air.
"This is this is just a season, and we're gonna get, we're gonna get through this," Fredy Calderon, a UofL medical student who was displaced by the fire, said.
Many of those watching on were watching their homes be destroyed.
"I see people today, crying on the ground, grabbing stuff; it just brings tears," Calderon said.
The pictures say more than words ever could: in one moment, generosity from a construction worker reunited this couple with one of their most prized possessions.
Calderon was lucky enough to make it out with his own prized possession.
"Ever since I moved to Louisville, I put this picture on my window. And every time I woke up, I used to see it," he said. "It reminded me of why I came to Louisville and to become a doctor and support all my family, community, friends and the world one day."
With nothing but a picture in hand and his mother, who flew in from from Florida by his side, Calderon watched on, with every smash and tear.
"God is a God of miracles. I'm Christian, have faith," he said. "Things are here today, things are not. This is living proof that we're all alive and nobody could have done that but the man above."
The latest update from Louisville Fire is the three-alarm-fire displaced 64 people Monday, across 37 apartments.
Many of them are lucky to be alive but leaving most, if not all, their belongings behind.
"It breaks my heart to know that most of our personal belongings — even from childhood that I have in there — are still in there," Calderon said. "Nobody else has their things right now."
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