Sea Haven shelter clients suffer damage after fire at apartment complex
Apartments units with homeless people transitioning to life off the streets caught fire on Wednesday morning.
One apartment was totaled, and the client lost all of her possessions.
“One is completely displaced,” said Julie McGorty, with Sea Haven’s transitional living program. “Unit 8 is completely gone. She’s lost everything.”
The apartments are connected to a car wash on U.S. Highway 501 near 3rd Avenue South in Myrtle Beach. Around 10:45 a.m. Myrtle Beach firefighters responded to the scene and quickly extinguished the fire, Lt. Jonathan Evans said.
Two clients lived in two apartments in the building, McGorty said. The other apartment seemed OK, but the resident was going to a hotel as well. McGorty said she contacted the American Red Cross to help replace items destroyed in the blaze.
Nobody was hurt in the fire.
Crews closed a stretch of Highway 501 while they worked the scene for about an hour.
Correction: This article originally misidentified with which program Julie McGorty works. She works with the Sea Haven’s transitional living program.
This story was originally published March 6, 2019 at 11:41 AM.
