He said his wife and two children were at home in their first-floor apartment when the blast occurred.

But hints of trouble emerged days after the couple moved into a first-floor apartment in the same building.

But his first-floor apartment, like the others, was roped off.

The family lived in a first-floor apartment on Grant, the short street that took much of the damage from the blast.

One bullet went through a window of a first-floor apartment and killed a 20-year-old woman as she lay sleeping.

The cause of the fire, which began in a first-floor apartment and shot up an air shaft, was under investigation, officials said.

He crashes in his office, a cramped first-floor apartment, about four days a week.

"I went down to see, and not only did they have a first-floor apartment, but a garden, too."

The manager had a first-floor apartment facing the parking lot.

"I looked up and saw flames shooting out of the first-floor apartment," he said.