10 adults, 4 kids displaced after San Jose apartment building fire: 'I don't have anything'

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- At least ten adults and four kids have been displaced after an early morning apartment fire in San Jose.

It happened near Gimelli Way and North Capitol Avenue.

"The fire started, it started in my room and that's all I know," Demetre Hopkins, a displaced resident said.

Hopkins is one of more than a dozen people displaced after a fire tore through part of his apartment complex around 5 a.m. on Friday morning, just two days after Christmas.

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Hopkins was dropping someone off at work at the time of the fire.

"I came home and turned the corner and saw all the fire trucks and I worry about my cousin because I saw my windows, his too, was burnt out so first thing I do was started calling for him and he answered so that was a relief," he said.

His cousin was ok and no one was hurt, but he's still looking for three out of his four cats.

Everything else in his apartment was deemed a total loss.

"I feel devastated, devastated, I don't have anything, everything I have is what I have on now, my watch collection, my cameras, PlayStation, everything, it's gone," he said.

But before firefighters showed up, neighbors said they were banging on each other's front doors to make sure everyone got out safely.

"The initial call said there were multiple people trapped so the incident was immediately upgraded to a second alarm," Battalion Chief Sean Lovens, a spokesperson for the San Jose Fire Department said.

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Firefighters delivered toys to young patients at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, including 11-year-old Rosston Houston, who was rescued from a burning home in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

San Jose fire said luckily, no one needed to be rescued.

They believe the fire started on the first floor and then quickly made its way up to the second floor.

It was contained to only one eight-unit building.

"Three units were heavily involved, and will be unable to be occupied for the coming weeks," Lovens said. "Five other units had some smoke damage and utility controls so we're evaluating if those residents will be able to repopulate those units and stay the night there today."

The cause of this fire is still under investigation.