'It Was Pandemonium': Resident Recounts Rescue From West Chester Senior Living Facility Fire
WEST CHESTER, Pa. (CBS) -- Authorities are still investigating after a massive fire injures more than two dozen people at a West Chester senior living facility.
"I came with rollers in my hair," Linda Barnes.
She says what matters most is that her 90-year-old mother Beatrice is alive. But finding her the night of the five alarm fire at Barclay friends senior living community was chaotic.
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"And I said my mother is a resident there, I refuse to leave so someone's got to help me," Barnes said.
It took several hours, but they were finally reunited at a nearby ambulance center.
"We got to my mother she was in my pajamas, a bathrobe, old slippers and a big blanket wrapped around her and god love one of the nurses who loves my mother at the home was sitting with my mother and I just hugged her and said you're such an angel thank you," she said.
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Unfortunately some families haven't had that same sweet moment, officials say while there are no confirmed deaths, there are still a handful of people unaccounted for after the fire.
"We are still making every effort to make sure that everybody is accounted for and contact the families," said ATF special agent Charlene Hennessy.
Saturday morning, Chester County officials met with an ATF's National Response Team from the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives.
While hot spots at the scene obstructed their ability to physically inspect the site for a cause and origin of the fire, authorities say offsite they've been conducting well over a hundred interviews.
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"There were over 140 residents that lived there so all those families need to be contacted," she said.
ATF's National Response Team not only brings a host of chemists, engineers and other experts to investigate the fire.
They also have heavy equipment to sift through collapsed floors and walls to look for clues and see if there are any buried victims. Something that haven't been able to rule out.
Volunteers with the Barclay Friends Senior Living Facility will be also collection supplies during a donation drive at Good Will Fire Company in West Chester.
Organizers are hoping to collect items such as clothing, toiletries, pillows, blankets and walkers.
Families of the displaced residents will be able to go to fire company Monday from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. to pick up the supplies for their loved ones
