VAN NEST, The Bronx (PIX11) — More than a dozen people are displaced in the Bronx after a four-alarm fire tore through an auto body shop before spreading to neighboring properties Saturday morning.

Jacy Hudson is one of 16 Van Nest residents who are now without a home.

“I have no apartment,” said Hudson. “Everything is gone. The ceiling, the floors, everything is gone, and I almost didn’t make it out of there.”

She said the same shop caught fire earlier this year, and she’s devastated after losing everything in this latest blaze.

“Everything I had is gone,” she said. “I just got up in that apartment. I just came out the hospital. I had back surgery. I have a whole spine made of metal now. I can’t even do physical therapy now. I can’t go to no doctors appointments now. I don’t have a pl

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