Fourteen apartment dwellers were left homeless and three firefighters were injured early Tuesday morning in a two-alarm fire that broke out next door to the apartment house in the city's Genesee-Ferry area, Buffalo fire officials said.
Firefighters responded to a 3:11 a.m. alarm at 2041 Genesee St., where the blaze broke out in a vehicle inside a garage. The fire then spread to the garage next door, at the apartment house at 2043 Genesee. Authorities shut off the power to that structure, forcing the residents to flee.
Three firefighters were taken to Erie County Medical Center for observation, after suffering what were described as non-life-threatening injuries.
The cause remains under investigation.
About 20 minutes earlier, and about a dozen blocks away, firefighters responded to a firebombing at a two-story home on Schreck Avenue. The fire was reported at 2:53 a.m., at 14 Schreck Avenue.
The Red Cross was called to assist two adults from that fire.
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
