CASA LINDA APARTMENT 'The Building Is On Fire' Michelle Dobyne

"You could hear &poppin’,” Michelle Dobyne - 01-10-2016, SUN More than 100 people do not have power or heat on Sunday night after a fire broke out at an apartment complex near 61st and Peoria Street. It destroyed the electrical panels that serve the entire Casa Linda apartment complex. It&the reason why all of the residents there are without power tonight. When we got to the scene earlier today we expected everyone would be miserable and upset. But that¬ at all what we found. "You could hear &poppin’,” Edward Robinson said. “It actually sounded like the Fourth of July in there." What Robinson and his neighbors heard was electrical wires frying. The fire burned the storage unit right under Centoria Lee&apartment. "I heard some noise, but I thought it was somebody drillin&I seen smoke, so I just wrapped my baby up and went out the door and went to my friend&house," Lee said. She and her 9-month-old daughter lost some of their clothes, baby toys, and the baby&crib in the fire. But they have an entire apartment complex full of neighbors and friends cheering them up. Like Michelle Dobyne, who found humor in the whole situation and had our entire newsroom laughing. "Aw, man, the building is on fire,” Dobyne said. “I said ‘no, what?’ I got my three kids and we bounced out. Nuh-uh, we ain&gon be in no fire. Not today." Actually, everyone we talked to at Casa Linda was in smiles despite their situation -- even those who don&have anywhere else to go. "Well, I&trying to be...