GOLDSBORO, N.C. (WNCN) – It has been a week since a devastating fire at Adair Apartments in Wayne County near Goldsboro left 50 people without a home and sent four to the hospital.

A fence now surrounds the perimeter of the building in the Rosewood community that has no roof, many broken windows and ash surrounding it.

“It was just that fast, within seconds. It was so scary,” survivor Angela Coleman recalls.

Coleman is one of the four people who were taken to the hospital. A week later, she is still there with a fractured back and a broken leg.

She tells CBS 17 that she had to jump out of the third-floor window because the stairs were impassable due to the fire, but not before saving her kids and granddaughter.

Coleman says her daughter was the first to notice the smoke out the window.

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“So, I said, open the front door, see where the smoke could be coming from and when she opened the door smoke was coming from the second floor coming up and she said I think something is on fire,” Coleman said.

Her daughter immediately ran down the stairs before the fire could block it, while Coleman went to go wake up her son.

“He comes out of the room running and I think he just dived completely off the top,” Coleman said.

At that point, it was only Coleman and her 5-year-old granddaughter Jourdyn left inside. But the smoke was becoming thick and she knew they needed to get out as soon as possible.

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She says she wrapped a towel around Jourdyn’s head and her own to filter out the smoke before running to her bedroom window where a group of people were waiting below on the ground.

Coleman explained her only option was to gently toss Jourdyn out of the window, hoping they would catch her.

“I held onto her for awhile before I dropped her,” Coleman said.

Then it was Coleman’s turn, slowly climbing out of the window, holding onto the ledge.

“I held on till it wouldn’t let me hold on no more,” Coleman said.

She then fell to the ground in a moment of life or death.

“I had to think fast, it was no can’t think and don’t know what to do, no time for that, I had to think quick,” Coleman explained.

Everything in her home is now destroyed and her family is accepting donations. But she says she is most thankful that her family is alive.

Jourdyn and Coleman’s son are home from the hospital with minor injuries.

Investigators say the cause of the fire was an accident.