The fire

It finally went out about 10:00. Some of the trucks were leaving and only one was left to deal with the smoke. The police started letting people back into the street. It was a building with 4 apartments in it, all of them two story three bedrooms. The back two, the ones that face me and the parking lot, were gutted. Demolished. No way to repair the damage. They'll have to tear down that half of the building and rebuild it. The front two suffered minimal damage and only to the walls that border the back two that burned. We guess that the fire originated in the master bedroom of the apartment on the left, which is upstairs and where the worst damage was done. Nobody knows what caused it yet, not even the apartment manager (a friend of ours). The residents of that apartment ran out and next door to get their neighbors out. I think that was good of them, since the master bedroom that started burning first shares a wall with the second upstairs bedroom of the neighboring apartment. Their neighbors had kids, so they got the kids out and then went to notify the people in the front. One of the residents from a neighboring building called 911 while the residents of the burning apartment got everybody else out of their building. The fire spread pretty fast. It just took out that one half though. I don't think anybody was seriously hurt. Still... everything is gone for those poor people. I don't know what they are going to do, as anybody that lives back here isn't exactly rich. The manager is scrambling to find a new apartment for them to live in temporarily in the complex. The damage is pretty bad. I went and saw it this morning, since fires often look worse than they are. Not in this case. It was just as bad as it looked.