Dozens of people lost their homes after a massive fire tore through a nearly century-old apartment building in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood on Tuesday.

It took firefighters more than four and a half hours to get the blaze on Forward Avenue under control. Pittsburgh Public Safety said as many as 30 residents have been displaced. Now those residents have to figure out what's next.

"Well, I was in the bathroom, and I smelled smoke in my building and I opened my apartment and there was a neighbor saying 'there's a fire, you gotta get out,'" said David Lineweber.

Still in their robes and pajamas after being evacuated just after 8 a.m., residents watched in horror as flames destroyed their building.

What looked like one small fire on the end of the building soon had the entir

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