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Buy Photo A fire at Royal Arms Apartments at 1580 North Royal Street damaged four apartments late Thursday night . No injuries were reported. (Photo: MARANDA FARIS/The Jackson Sun) Buy Photo A late night fire left several apartments heavily damaged at Royal Arms on North Royal Street Thursday night . Jackson Fire Department Battalion Chief David Pruitt said the cause of the fire is still under investigation, but the fire appears to have started in a second floor apartment. Pruitt said the fire began in apartment 101, and the entire building sustained heavy damage from smoke and water. The fire was reported at 11:05 p.m. and crews were expected to be on scene until early Friday morning , until at least 1:30 a.m. Pruitt said the fire was considered to be a two-alarm fire, requiring crews from multiple stations to respond. Pruitt said about 8 fire trucks responded to the apartment fire . Red Cross representatives were expected to arrive early Friday morning to offer assistance to ...

EDEN — One person is confirmed dead following an early morning fire at Arbor Ridge, an assisted-living community. The victim, whose name and gender have not been released, was removed from a badly-burned, upper-floor apartment at 2:30 p.m., 13 hours after the fire broke out. Rescue crews put the victim on a gurney and lowered it to the ground with an Eden Fire Department ladder truck . “Sadly, a resident passed away,” Arbor Ridge said in a statement released Monday afternoon . “The entire Arbor Ridge at Eden family is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of a cherished member of our community and our prayers are with the late resident’s family.” When the victim was pulled from the building, several friends and family members gathered in a circle across the street and prayed. Most of them left at the same time. Forty-six other residents and employees were accounted for following a blaze that ripped through the south end of the facility at 302 S. Kennedy St. at 1:39 a...

injured Wednesday morning in a fire at a northwest Oklahoma City apartment complex ." title="One person was injured Wednesday morning in a fire at a northwest Oklahoma City apartment complex ." width="180" style="border: 0px;" /> One person was injured Wednesday morning in a fire at a northwest Oklahoma City apartment complex . Investigators are trying to determine how the fire started. OKLAHOMA CITY - Several people rushed out of their apartments in northwest Oklahoma City Wednesday morning when flames swept through the building. Around 7:30 a.m., a fire erupted at Sonterra Apartments near N.W. 10th Street and N. Council Road. Firefighters quickly arrived and doused the flames. Medics treated a woman following the fire. She was taken to the hospital, but is expected to be all right. Several small pets were killed in the blaze. Firefighters say it appears the fire started on the outside of the building. Four units were heavily damaged, and at...

December 31, 1994 | By LAURA UNGAR; Courant Staff Writer COVENTRY — Three-year-old Jared Brelsford's tiny black bicycle stood outside the charred, icicle- covered apartment building where he and his mother, Lisa, died late Thursday . The two were killed in a three-alarm blaze that left 11 adults and nine children homeless. The fire destroyed their apartment and heavily damaged two of the seven others in the 100-year-old former St. Mary's Church at 62 School St. The Brelsfords -- whose names were confirmed by neighbors and co-workers but not fire or police officials -- were the third and fourth victims of fatal fires in Connecticut this week. Brelsford, 27, lived with her son in an upstairs apartment at 62-D Church Hill Apartments , where the blaze is believed to have started about 10:30 p.m. State and local emergency officials have yet to determine the cause. Neighbors and co-workers who knew the Brelsfords remembered Jared as a friendly, rambunctious preschooler who liked ...

ASHWAUBENON, Wis. (WBAY) - The Red Cross in helping people who lived in twelve apartments find places to stay this Memorial Day Weekend , after a fire heavily damages an Ashwaubenon apartment complex . Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at Foxcroft Apartments in Ashwaubenon on May 28, 2017. Ashwaubenon Public Safety Chief Eric Dunning says fire units were called to the Foxcroft Apartments on Viking Drive at about 6:00 Sunday night. Flames were already coming through the roof and windows of a two-story, twelve unit, building. Neighboring fire departments also helped fight the fire. One person was taken to the hospital to be checked out after breathing in too much smoke. Everyone else in the building, and four cats, safely escaped. No firefighters were hurt. The cause of the fire is under investigation. No one was home in the apartment where the fire started. American Red Cross Disaster Action Team volunteers say they ...

A Jan. 15 fire damaged a unit at 2288 Dunwoody Crossing in the Dunwoody Village Apartments complex . Authorities and residents indicated there were no immediate reports of injuries. A Jan. 15 fire burned out part of the rear wall of 2288 Dunwoody Crossing in the Dunwoody Village Apartments . ( Photo John Ruch ) The blaze at the apartment complex , located off North Peachtree Road in Dunwoody, left a two- story hole burned and bashed through part of the building’s back wall. Previously known under different management as Broadstone at Dunwoody, the complex, which contains hundreds of apartments, has seen at least two other major fires in the past three years. A January 2014 blaze heavily damaged units at 2436 Dunwoody Crossing, and a December 2015 fire in the complex displaced about 10 households.