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Fire contained to portion of third floor inside Lakeside Village apartment complex

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Brad Devereaux | MLive.com Residents stand outside the main entrance of Lakeside Village apartment complex Tuesday night . SAGINAW TOWNSHIP , MI —  Audrey Fobear, 80, was watching television when the fire alarms started blaring . She headed for the exit with the rest of her neighbors at Lakeside Village , a three- story apartment complex at 4370 Lakeside Circle . Fobear lives three doors down from where the fire started. "I just saw the door open and flames," she said. "Two people were trying to put them out." Many of her neighbors are disabled, she said, but believed everyone got out without serious injury.    She and several friends made it outside about 9:22 p.m. shortly after firefighters arrived and extended a truck boom to fight the fire with water.  The fire began in a room on the third floor of the northwest corner, said Saginaw Township Fire Chief Jim Peterson .  Brad Devereaux | MLive.com Medical responders speak with someone as firefighters put away th...

No quick answers on Fort Collins apartment fire

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Buy Photo Caution tape warns of asbestos contamination at a Fort Collins apartment complex following a fire in this 2015 file photo. (Photo: Jason Pohl/The Coloradoan) Buy Photo Investigators this week continue to piece together what caused an early morning apartment fire that destroyed six units at a Fort Collins complex , all while displaced residents who lost everything work to piece their lives back together. The May 20 fire at Brookview Apartments near Edora Park has been deemed accidental, PFA Capt. Patrick Love said Tuesday. However, the cause and exact origin have not yet been released, and insurance investigators have also gotten involved. A more detailed timeline about when those answers may come was not immediately available. Alex Dye, 19, was asleep when he heard smoke alarms blaring . He woke up thinking someone was cooking or the batteries were low. "I peeked my head around the corner and saw my whole northern wall was on fire," he told the Coloradoan Tuesday...