VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-10-21
“I thought something was on fire. I thought something was happening to the neighbors. Like it sounded like an urgent evacuation sort of situation,”
Ilhan Omar · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-21
Omar recalled waking up around 6 a.m. on October 12 to pounding on her doors and thinking something was on fire.
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