APOPKA, Fla. – Tragedy struck an Apopka firefighter after the home he grew up in was destroyed when a fire ripped through it. “It’s definitely hard to look at, you know because this is the house I grew up in,” Jeremias Williams said.
The home where Williams has some of his most cherished memories is now a pile of rubble and ashes. “Initially it was kind of uh, put us at a standstill you know because as a firefighter I’m used to fighting the fire,” he said. [TRENDING: What the shell?
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