VIDEO: 24 units at an apartment complex in east-central Fresno were evacuated after a fire broke out and spread quickly on Tuesday night.
The Fresno Fire Department says the fire started in one unit in the middle building of an apartment complex near Maple Avenue and Fountain Way.
Battalion Chief Tony Escobedo says the department received multiple calls right after 7:00 p.m. about the fire. When firefighters arrived on the scene, they realized the one unit where the fire originated is connected to 24 other units through an attic, and the fire was spreading quickly among them. The first thing they did of course was evacuated everyone that was inside, which they did safely and no injuries were reported.
But Escobedo says if residents hadn’t called so quickly, the situation would have been much worse.