Students displaced by Amherst fire, every item of clothing, 'every keepsake gone'

The Friday night fire that destroyed a four-story building under construction and an adjacent 75-unit apartment complex in Amherst, Massachusetts, still wasn't fully extinguished by Sunday afternoon.

In all, 232 people lost their housing and their belongings, but officials said no one was injured.

The luxury apartment building, private, off-campus housing marketed toward student living, partially collapsed from the fire itself. Then wreckers spent much of the weekend demolishing what remained of what was originally a sizable structure.

Amherst fire officials said the “attack” on the fire was hampered Friday night by poor water pressure in the area. Tanker trucks came from numerous communities to help boost the water supply. During the blaze, there were multiple explosions, likely from f