Four-Alarm Fire Consumes Pennsylvania Apartment Complex

Officials said the apartment building did not have a sprinkler system.
March 11, 2007
AP Photo/York Daily Record/Sunday News, Jason Plotkin
Firefighters battle a three-alarm apartment fire in York, Pa., on Saturday, March 10, 2007. Andrew Stern, chief of the Springettsbury Township Fire Department, said the building with about 20 apartments was fully engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived.
Firefighters battle a three-alarm apartment fire in York, Pa., on Saturday, March 10, 2007. Andrew Stern, chief of the Springettsbury Township Fire Department, said the building with about 20 apartments was fully engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived.

A four-alarm fire destroyed part of an apartment complex in Springettsbury Township Saturday night.

The apartment complex is on the 2600 block of Carnegie Road.

Firefighters said at one point, 20 apartments were on fire.

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Officials said the apartment building did not have a sprinkler system.

It is not clear where the fire started or what caused it, fire officials said.

About 50 residents are without homes and the Red Cross is helping them find shelter.

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