Firefighters spent hours Thursday morning trying to put out a two-alarm apartment fire in southwest Houston, KPRC Local 2 reported.
Residents of the Spring Meadows Apartments on Ocee Street at Richmond Avenue were woken up at about 4 a.m. by the sounds of smoke detectors.
"The fire alarm kept tweaking and I got up and came outside and saw smoke coming out of the windows," first-floor resident Denise Boggess said.
Firefighters originally received reports of people trapped on the first floor, but everyone safely escaped.
Houston Fire Department Chief Tommy Dowdy said the affected apartments shared a common attic.
"Once it gets up in the attic, it allows it to travel and that's probably why it got to the first four (apartments) really quickly," Dowdy said.
Eight units sustained smoke or water damage.
As with all two-alarm fires, arson investigators were called to the scene to try and determine what sparked the blaze.
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