Crews worked to put out a fire at an Arlington apartment complex on Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n
Around 1:34 p.m., the Arlington Fire Department responded to reports of an apartment fire. While enroute, fire crews reported a large column of smoke visible and requested a second alarm to bring additional resources to the scene. <\/p>\n
Texas Sky Ranger could be seen coming from the 3-alarm fire at the apartment complex near Little Road and I-20 around 2 p.m.<\/p>\n
Upon Arlington FD’s arrival, heavy fire conditions were reported on the first and second floors of the apartment building.<\/p>\n
Crews immediately initiated an aggressive fire attack and conducted a primary search of the structure, according to Arlington Fire.<\/p>\n
A short time later, fire was observed through the roof, prompting the request for a third alarm to ensure adequate personnel and equipment were available.<\/p>\n
The fire was brought under control approximately 20 minutes after the first unit arrived on scene.<\/p>\n
The apartment building consists of 16 units, one of which was vacant at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n
Apartment management reported that 24 residents, including 19 adults and 5 children, have been displaced because of the fire. The American Red Cross has been notified and is assisting displaced residents with temporary housing and support services, according to Arlington FD.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire remains unknown and is currently under investigation. There were no reported civilian or firefighter injuries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews worked to put out a fire at an Arlington apartment complex on Monday afternoon. Around 1:34 p.m.,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-177093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}