When Dallas Fire-Rescue firefighters got a call for a fire at Parkway Quarter condos Wednesday afternoon, they were very familiar with the address. They'd been there earlier to douse flames.
This time it was a fire in the same building but different units, WFAA reported.
Firefighters say the two appear to be unrelated. But the incidents remain under investigation.
The first fire, they say, was electrical and had started in a wall. They were on the scene from 1:30 a.m. until about noon.
Gina Harris went back into her condo to check for damage. There was water, but the fire had stopped at the unit next door.
Suddenly, there was a familiar odor and sight -- smoke.
“We were like, is that smoke?” she said. “By the time we came out to the parking lot there was full-fledged fire all over again.”
Barely an hour after they’d left, crews returned to a raging fire, one that would go to four alarms.
“This most recent fire involved an area that did not appear to have any damage from the previous fire,” said DFR spokesman Jason Evans. “That being said, we cannot confirm that it has anything to do with being a rekindle or anything to do with the first fire.”
Power had been shut off to the entire building, so the second fire was almost certainly not electrical in nature, Evans said.
“Right now, it’s believed to be unrelated to the first,” he said.
