Massive Blaze Rips Through TX Apartments
By Jack Howland and Emerson Clarridge
Source Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Mar. 6—A massive blaze tore through a two-story apartment building in southwest Fort Worth Friday night, destroying the structure and leaving one person with smoke inhalation, according to the fire department.
That person was taken to the hospital. James McAmis, a department spokesman, was unable to provide an update on the victim's condition Saturday morning but noted the person was conscious and alert when firefighters arrived.
The crews elevated the incident to a third alarm fire within an hour, McAmis said. Around 90 Fort Worth firefighters were battling the blaze, spraying water from on the ground as well as going on top of crane ladders to spray down into the building.
The department had the fire under control in a little over an hour, containing it to the one apartment building, McAmis said. It took them deep into the overnight hours, however, to completely put out the fire.
"Our crews, when they got on and saw the heavy fire, they made quick work to be able to bring the fire under control in that sort of amount of time," McAmis said. "It was obviously a defensive fire, from the beginning."
All tenants of the apartment building, which has 24 units, were displaced as a result of the fire.
It was unclear on Saturday where the fire began, or what caused it. The fire department in investigating the cause of the fire, McAmis said.
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