MIAMI (WSVN) - Crews battled a fire, Wednesday morning, that broke out in a building right next to a daycare in Miami.
Miami Fire Rescue said the fire broke out at an abandoned apartment complex near the Bola Childcare & Learning Center, located in the area of North Miami Avenue and 79th Street.
“I was outside welcoming the children like I always do, every morning, welcoming my parents ‘good morning, good morning,’ so one of the guys across the street notified me there’s a fire in the back, the next building beside us,” said Josephine Akinbiyi, a staff member at Bola Childcare.
Firefighters doused the flames in and around the burning building to keep the fire from spreading.
7Skyforce flew over the scene, where firefighters were seen going through each unit making sure no one is inside.
All of the children and staff at the daycare made it out safely.
“[I] run into the building, I told my staff pull the alarm because when we do fire drill, that’s what we do,” Akinbiyi said. “I just told the children, ‘Fire drill, fire drill, fire drill.'”
The cause of the fire remains under investigation, but officials believe squatters may be to blame.
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