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Vincenzo Pitingaro, who had lived there for 40 years, continues to trace the event to this day. “I’m still in shock,” said the 66-year-old, who has been living in a room in the Hotel Kniep since that day, on Thursday evening when the donations were handed over. When the fire broke out around 8:20 a.m. in the morning, he was still asleep. Residents on the opposite side of the street had woken up the resident of the house by phone and drew his attention to the fire. “I don’t remember how I got out of the house myself,” he reported in the glass hall on the station square, where he met his former neighbors.