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More than 50 residents have been displaced<\/a>, two people were taken to a hospital for smoke inhalation, and three were treated at the scene during a massive west\u00a0Fort Worth\u00a0apartment fire early Tuesday, officials said.<\/p>\n More than 30 fire units were dispatched to the\u00a0Mariposa Park Apartments, at\u00a06701 Calmont Ave., starting about\u00a05:30 a.m.\u00a0Fort Worth Fire Department\u00a0officials said it was a three-alarm fire.<\/p>\n About 50 apartments were damaged in the blaze, fire officials said. The department initially estimated 100 residents were affected. In an update Tuesday evening, officials said a total of 57 residents were displaced from their homes.<\/p>\n A firefighter and four residents were treated\u00a0for smoke inhalation.<\/a><\/p>\n Flames had spread through the attic and roof of the two-story apartment building when firefighters arrived, and the structural integrity of the building began to fail quickly, the department said. Once all residents were safely evacuated, firefighters used defensive tactics to extinguish the fire from outside, using aerials to pump thousands of gallons of water into the building.<\/p>\n The\u00a0American Red Cross\u00a0is providing emergency assistance to the displaced residents.<\/p>\n Red Cross North Texas Region\u00a0officials and the\u00a0City of Fort Worth\u00a0worked together to open an evacuation point at\u00a0Evans Recreation Center\u00a0for affected residents.\u00a0The shelter<\/a>\u00a0is at\u00a03242 Lackland Road, and disaster assistance is free, according to the\u00a0Red Cross.<\/p>\n If you have been impacted by the apartment fire and need assistance, you can also call the\u00a0Red Cross\u00a0at 1-800-\u00a0RED CROSS\u00a0(1-800-733-2767).<\/p>\n In a separate incident, three adults were displaced and\u00a0two firefighters were injured<\/a> in a house fire late Monday night in south\u00a0Fort Worth.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Visit\u00a0star-telegram.com<\/a>. Distributed by\u00a0Tribune Content Agency, LLC.<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harriet Ramos Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TNS) \u00a0 More than 50 residents have been displaced, two people were taken…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-417328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417328","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=417328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}