Firefighters Battle Dallas Apartment Complex Fire

The American Red Cross has been called to help the residents of about two dozen apartments that were damaged early Thursday by a large fire at a Far East Dallas complex.

Dallas Fire-Rescue responded to the fire just before 1 a.m. at 11050 Woodmeadow Parkway, near Ferguson Road and Interstate 635.

The three-story apartment complex had heavy flames coming through its roof when firefighters arrived. The blaze was “well advanced,” but first repsonders were able to cut it off by attacking it through a breezeway in front of the flames, Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said.

Of the 24 apartments in the building, 12 sustained damage. The rest were uninhabitable because of water and smoke, Evans said. One of the units in the building was not occupied.

Krystle Kennison, 36, was comforting friends at the scene. Kennison lives in a nearby building unaffected by the fire.

”I didn’t think anything of it,” she recalled thinking after waking up to alarms and sirens. “But then I woke up to this mess.”

Others who lived in the complex said their apartments were flooded by fire hoses, and some cars sustained damage from debris.

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