People inside the Home Depot in San Jose that caught fire Saturday evening said they didn’t hear any fire alarms going off until well after burning pieces of ceiling started falling.
NBC Bay Area's SkyRanger flew over Sunday evening of what's left of a south San Jose Home Depot after it was destroyed by a massive fire Saturday.
Sherrie Butts said she watched in horror as her home just a few yards away from the store began to fill with thick smoke.Within minutes, propane tanks were exploding like bombs, she said. "No fire people were here, no police officers, no nothing," she said."We were on our own. People were taking all our hoses."
Embers from the blaze burned sections of her roof and her palm tree. Firefighters tore down her fence to get to the flames. She was ordered to evacuate. "When you're driving away, you're never going to see your home again, never. That's how we felt, that we would never come back home, that we thought it was just going to be gone," she said.
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