HOLYOKE, MA (WGGB/WSHM) - We now know the likely cause of one of the two back-to-back apartment building fires that left more than 100 Holyoke residents without a home, and it’s likely something you own — a power strip!

Two back-to-back fires left three apartment buildings in the city unlivable. It’s going to be a long road for the more than 100 residents here in Holyoke, but they won’t walk it alone.

Christmas morning should bring joy to children. But for dozens of Holyoke families, it may bring only the cold. Two apartment fires in two days have left more than a hundred people without their homes.

“I just urge people to step up and really help out the people of Holyoke. This is devastating. I mean, there are hundreds of people that are out in the cold now,” urged Bob Charland, a membe

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