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THREE OAKS – No injuries were reported in an early morning fire that caused the evacuation of a 16-unit, two- story apartment building in Three Oaks on Saturday, Aug. 19. Fire Chief David Flick said the alarm of a structure fired came in at 5:40 a.m. and the middle section of the roof was engulfed in flames when crews arrived at the Hidden Harbor Villas (formerly Oak Tree Apartments ) at 305 W. Locust St. The fire took about three hours to bring under control and wasn’t totally cleared until approximately 2 p.m. Peter Trigg said he came home from work at about 5:40 a.m. and immediately smelled burning plastic and heard popping sounds , went around to the back of the building and noticed that a second-floor unit’s deck was on fire. “I ran in, pulled the fire alarm as quick as I could, ran up the stairs and got my family out,” he said. Trigg noted that his his wife and 1-year-old baby along with most of the unit’s other residents were asleep at the...

A teenager was unable to save her 5-year-old sister from their burning apartment Tuesday night when roaring flames turned the apartment into an inferno, making it impossible to get to the second-floor where the child was watching television, officials said. East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Dr . "Beau" Clark identified the girl as Treasure Garner, although her family says her last name is Hadley. She died in the fire at the Cedarwood Apartments on Cedarcrest Avenue . The fire started around 7 p.m. and burned for more than three hours, spreading to more than 10 apartments before firefighters could bring it under control. Treasure's 18-year-old sister had earlier helped the child get ready for bed, then turned on a television on the second floor of the apartment for the little girl to watch while the teen went to the first-floor kitchen to prepare dinner, said Brant Thompson, chief deputy of the State Fire Marshal 's Office, according to accounts gathered by the F...

Lubbock burn center after Abilene apartment complex fire " /> Lubbock burn center after Abilene apartment complex fire " /> ABILENE, Texas - A 4-year-old boy has died and his 27-year-old mother remains in a Lubbock burn center after sustaining serious injuries during a fire Wednesday at Warwick Apartments in the 2400 block of Arrowhead Drive in south Abilene. The child, identified as Liam Hardy, had "too much smoke inhalation" and his lungs stopped functioning , resulting in life support machines being turned off, said Benjamin Reed, the boy's uncle.  The 4-year-old was pronounced dead at 7 p.m. Wednesday. PHOTOS ->  http://www.ktxs.com/586100479 The boy's mother, Ashley Hardy, remains at UMC Timothy J. Harnar Burn Center in Lubbock. She is expected to survive. Another of her sons, 9-year-old Aiden, was treated at Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene, while an Abilene firefighter was also treated at the hospital for burns, according to the Ab...

HICKORY N.C. – A fire started Thursday afternoon at Ridgecrest Apartments, drawing residents out of their apartments to watch as firefighters went to work. Firefighters were called to the apartments on 12th Avenue SE around 3 p.m. Julie Cruz-Mendoza said she was walking her son home from the bus stop when she heard a fire alarm and saw smoke coming out of the second floor windows of Apt. 79. She said she hurried to call 911 and the housing authority. The apartment’s resident, Jamal Wilson, 34, said he was not in the apartment when the fire started. He said a neighbor told him his apartment was on fire and he ran inside and upstairs. He said when he opened a bedroom door on the second floor, smoke poured out, and he was forced to go back outside. No one was injured in the fire. “I’m just shocked,” Wilson said. “I don’t like all this excitement.” Capt. Chad Fisher with the Hickory Fire Department said bedding was damaged in the second floor bedroom and there was minor...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A two-alarm fire at an apartment building in Norfolk displaced 17 people Friday . Battalion Chief Julian Williamson tells WAVY .com the fire is in the  7100 block Sewells Point Road . It was called in around 11:15 a.m. Friday. Gallery: Two-alarm apartment fire in Norfolk Fire officials say a woman inside the building smelled smoke and got out with her five-year-old grandson. As she evacuated, she alerted neighbors to the fire. Crews arrived on scene within minutes to find heavy smoke coming from the second floor of the two- story apartment building . Firefighters first searched the building for anyone inside. They encountered heavy smoke and high heat conditions as they worked to put out the blaze. A second alarm was called due to the size of the building and magnitude of the fire. No injuries were reported and the fire did not spread to any other buildings. The fire was marked under control at 12:30 p.m. Though the flames were contained to the area where it ...

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...

Ten people have been displaced by a fire that resulted in damage to four apartments in the Arden Arcade area . The two-alarm fire was reported shortly before 4 p.m. Monday in the 2200 block of Hurley Way. The fire started in an upstairs unit and spread to an adjoining unit, causing extensive damage , said Capt. Chris Vestal, a spokesman for the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire Protection District . Two other units sustained moderate fire damage , and others suffered smoke and water damage, he said. A second alarm was issued because flames were reported coming through the roof of the upstairs apartment and some vegetation near the building was also burning, raising concerns that the fire would spread, Vestal said. An off-duty firefighter from another agency called in the fire report and tried to keep people who had evacuated the building from going back into apartments. Vestal said firefighters determined that no one was trapped inside the apartments, and he urged people not to go back into...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Emergency crews responded to the scene of a large fire at an apartment complex . The fire started around 5 p.m. Sunday at the Carrington Park Apartments in the 2700 block of Rideout Lane in Murfreesboro. Firefighters said the flames spread quickly and burned through the roof before they were able to extinguish it. Witnesses at the scene reported seeing large flames and heavy smoke coming from one of the buildings. Reports stated the main part of the fire was out by 6 p.m., and crews remained on scene to put out hot spots. "We will be here for quite a while," said Battalion Chief Daryl Alexander . "We want to make sure there are absolutely no more hot spots before we clear the scene." All residents in Building K where the fire happened have been displaced. Officials said there were 12 units in the building, and they were all affected by either fire, smoke, or water. Authorities said those displaced were being assisted with shelter. Officials...

KENTWOOD, Mich. (WOOD) — The investigation into the fire that killed two people in a Kentwood apartment Friday morning centers on two questions: What cause the fire and did smoke detectors go off? For most of the residents of the building at Wingate Apartment complex , the first sign of trouble came with a panicked, middle of the night warning. “The window was opened and we heard a woman screaming there is a fire! There is a fire,” said Rachel Dotson-Hackworth, who lives next to the building where the fire happened. Kentwood firefighters arrived in minutes and pulled the victims from the lower level apartment , but it was too late. The victims have been identified as Mary Hopkins, 51 and 61-year-old Edward Newhouse who lived in the apartment together. Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the fire, which started in a bed. One clue may be the smoking habits of one of the victims. “There are several other causes that we need to eliminate, and smoking is one of them,” Kentw...

A resident of a Bristol apartment block revealed to have Grenfell Tower-style cladding has urged the building's owners to replace it. Philip Hoang, 57, who has lived in the Eclipse building at Cabot Circus for three years, had not heard from property managers about the fire safety risk before being alerted to the problem by the Bristol Post . "I feel scared," said Mr Hoang. "I can quite easily see a fire happening here, and there is no way we would survive it. "It’s such a nice building, but obviously if it’s similar material then they have to take it off and renew it - nothing else will work." Avon Fire and Rescue Service confirmed today that the landmark tower block , which stands above the city's Harvey Nichols department store , used similar materials to those which were blamed for spreading the devastating blaze at Grenfell Tower in London, which claimed the lives of at least 80 people. Three beaches closed after broken pipe leaks sewage ...

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...

Dozens of Westbury residents were displaced when a fire burned through their two- story apartment building Saturday afternoon , fire officials said. About 30 people living in the building in the Westwood Village complex on Brush Hollow Road were not able to return to their apartments. The blaze damaged 12 of the building's 16 units, said Jericho Fire Department Chief Kerry Ketsoglou . Most Popular Three firefighters suffered minor injuries , but no residents were hurt, authorities said. Greig Matthew, 37, said he was home alone when firefighters banged on his door and told him to get out. It appeared that his apartment was not seriously damaged, he said. "I just grabbed what I could and ran out the back," said Matthew, who has lived in the building for about a year. "This is the first time in my life I've dealt with anything like this." Robert Fisk, regional property manager for Home Properties Inc., the Rochester-based owner of Westwood Village , said ...

VERO BEACH — Seven people have been displaced due to a fire that started in building 12 around 5:30 p.m. at Shadowbrook Apartments on 16th Street in Vero Beach. There were no known injuries. Two separate families in the building have been displaced - one because of the fire, the other due to smoke damage. The American Red Cross is on scene to assess what help the families will need. The fire started in the kitchen and was contained to a single unit. Smoke spread through some of the 10-unit building, according to the battalion chief on scene. The official cause is being investigated but the tenants in the unit told emergency dispatchers it was a grease fire. Five engines, a ladder truck, and one ambulance responded to the fire.

Police lights (Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto) A Murfreesboro apartment complex fire has displaced residents of 12 units. At least eight crews and several chief units battled the fire at Carrington Park Apartments on Rideout Lane. Firefighters arrived on scene at about 4:45 p.m. to see heavy flames. The fire appeared to have started on the third floor of Building K and spread to the attic, spokeswoman Ashley McDonald said. Fire, smoke and water damage have forced all of the residents out. The owners of the complex is working with residents to make sure they have a place to stay, McDonald said. There were no injuries, she said. "We don’t know at this time what caused the fire," she said. "The fire marshal is on scene investigating." Battalion Chief Daryl Alexander said in a subsequent news release the bulk of the fire was out around 6 p.m. but crews were expecting to stay on scene well into the evening. "We will be here for quite a while," said Alex...

A 12- unit apartment building in Tacoma near University Place went up in flames Tuesday afternoon , resulting in a partial roof collapse , Tacoma fire officials said. The two-alarm fire at 2602 Westridge Ave. West started at about 4 p.m. and caused damage to all 12 apartments in the building, but no one was believed to be hurt or missing, said Tacoma Fire Department spokesman Joe Meinecke . By 5:45 p.m., the fire had been mostly contained but firefighters were still working to control hot spots . When first responders arrived, they were greeted by flames and smoke coming out of the back side of one building at the Boulders at Puget Sound apartment complex . The fire climbed to the third floor and into the roof and spread laterally, and crews had to be called out of the building as the roof partially collapsed , Meinecke said. There is heavy damage to the middle and upper floor of the apartment building , he said. The American Red Cross was requested to come to the scene to help tho...

Six people have been displaced after an early morning fire at a northwest Austin apartment . The fire started around 5:30 am. at the San Marin Apartments on Duval just west of MoPac. Officials say the fire began on a third floor balcony and spread to the attic. Two units were damaged and officials say they are unlivable. 16 units in total were affected. No one was hurt. Officials say the fire was caused by improperly discarded smoking material . The estimated cost of damages are $200,000 for structural and $45,000 for content.

(Photo: WHAS) LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- Several Jeffersontown families are hoping to return home Thursday while two people rescued from an apartment fire recover from their injuries. Around 9 p.m. Wednesday firefighters were called to the Chestnut Ridge Apartment Complex on Tree Lane. More than a dozen people were forced out of their homes. Officials say the fire was contained to one apartment on the third floor. "They were just trapped with the amount of smoke that was in their apartments. They were just trapped in the location where they were,” said Jeffersontown Fire Chief Sean Dreisbach . Firefighters say the fire started in the kitchen. © 2017 WHAS-TV

It's not known what started a fire that swept through two apartment buildings in El Reno. No one was hurt. EL RENO, Oklahoma - Flames swept through two empty apartment buildings in El Reno early Tuesday morning . Around 3 a.m., someone spotted flames at the Amberwood Apartments at 801 Willie Miner Avenue . Two separate buildings were on fire. Both buildings were empty because they were being renovated. Crews quickly put out the flames. No one was hurt. It's not known yet what caused the fire.

Some of these sites have been lying empty for years or have become eyesores. It’s never good to see a building or piece of land being unused, especially well-known landmarks and once-loved attractions. But these places may not stay like that for long as plans have been made to redevelop them. Here we have put together a list of some of Tyneside’s derelict sites or vacant buildings and see what’s being done to bring them back to life. 1. Tynemouth Outdoor Pool, North Tyneside Tynemouth outdoor pool on Longsands beach" src="src" /> As it looks today: Tynemouth outdoor pool on Longsands beach The lido, at the southern end of Longsands beach in Tynemouth, was once a major attraction. It originally opened in 1925 and became a popular destination for locals and visitors. However, the pool’s popularity began to drop in the 1970s when cheap package holidays and indoor pools both started to become available. Read More In 1996, it was turned into an artificial rockpool...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Five kids and their parents escaped a burning apartment overnight in southwest Houston. It happened at the Rama Apartment complex on Woodfair. A neighbor says he and his brother raced to the burning apartment with fire extinguishers, but the intense flames prevented them from getting closer. They said the odor of smoke was the first sign of trouble for them. "I started smelling it and [it was] the best I could've done," said neighbor Carlos Portillo . "I tried to get inside, but it was too hot so I came outside and waited for the firefighters." Portillo also said the children living in the apartment were what concerned him the most, but fortunately, the family managed to get out. Two rooms of the apartment were destroyed. There was no word on what started the fire. Report a typo to the ABC13 staff (Copyright ©2017 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.)