WASHINGTON (AP) -- One person was hospitalized with burns and smoke inhalation Sunday after an apartment fire broke out in a facility that houses elderly and disabled people, a District of Columbia fire department spokesman said.
Six people were carried out of the building after the fire broke out around 5 p.m. One person was taken to the hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries, D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Alan Etter said.
It was the second fire in less than a week at the Harvard Towers, located in the 1800 block of Harvard Street, NW.
A fire on the morning of June 6 caused about $35,000 in damages at the building. One person was seriously injured, and firefighters had to rescue many residents, several in wheelchairs. Etter said that fire was caused by a blind man who had been smoking in bed in a ninth floor apartment.
The two-alarm blaze Sunday was isolated to a second floor apartment.
''It's a lot worse than the other situation'' because the Monday fire didn't cause much smoke, Etter said. ''Now there's smoke extending to the upper floors.''
