Firefighters were searching the rubble for possible additional victims.
"I was in my room, and my mom was the one that came to my room, yelling, like, 'Oh my God, I felt the room shake. Something must've happened,'" a neighbor said.
Firefighters were attacking the fire from the outside because they remained concerned about a further collapse.
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