BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ( WBRC ) - First responders tended to the smoldering ashes Saturday afternoon left behind nearly two days after a devastating fire ripped through residential buildings in Birmingham’s Five Points South.

Nineteen people left without a home, many of them lost everything. Miraculously, no one was injured after a small vacant building on 20th Street South caught fire quickly spreading to the residential buildings next door.

“Historic. Been here forever. A little piece of Birmingham just gone,” a neighbor who lives across the street said.

Just before 5 a.m. Friday, Five Points South residents woke up to the smell of smoke and the sound of blaring sirens.

“I look out the window and there’s like these whole white buildings, that house. Engulfed in flames. It was very trauma

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