The flames and smoke filled the apartment building in the 1500-block of North Karlov Avenue.
Families returned to the scene Friday morning stunned by the damage left behind.
Their home is unrecognizable after a fire started in the basement of an apartment building just before midnight.
"I'm just trying to help them put some of their stuff away and make sure they have at least some security for what they have left, because they lost everything pretty much," Alexander Espada, who lives next door, said.
Espada is helping his neighbors retrieve their belongings and salvage as much as they can.
"I just want to make sure they're OK," Espada said. "I mean it's winter, it's freezing, it's some of the coldest days and gotta do what you gotta do as a human being, you've got to do your best to help and do what you can."
Now, he is driving them to a friend's home to stay for the night.
"I'm going to take them to a friend's, where they are going to be staying overnight, but as of tomorrow they have nowhere to go," Espada said.
Five families live in this building, including children and everyone made it out alive and escaped, before firefighters got there.
One of the 10 people transported to the hospital is an 81-year-old woman, who is being treated for smoke inhalation.
Neighbors rushed out of the building in the bitter cold, some in their pajamas to get to safety.
"We did have some fire extension to get up into the upper floor and the back porches," CFD Deputy District Chief Ernie Pinkston Jr. "So we had a total of four lines on the interior battling the fire. The men and women of the fire department on the scene, they did a great job under the circumstance with the cold weather, did a fantastic job."
"I'm glad that there were no lost lives," Espada said. "That's the most important thing."
The cause of the fire that started in the basement is under investigation.