Ind. Apartment Fire Critically Hurts One Person
Feb. 09--An apartment fire left one person critically injured Thursday morning on the city's south side.
Firefighters responded just after 5:30 a.m. to the Villa Capri apartments at 1923 Fox Point Trail, off South Anthony Boulevard, and found smoke and flames coming from a second-floor unit.
Fire crews contained the blaze to one of the building's roughly two-dozen apartments, and only one person was hurt, said Stacey Fleming, a Fort Wayne Fire Department spokeswoman.
Fort Wayne Police, including a homicide detective, and the Allen County Prosecutor's Office were investigating the fire Thursday as a matter of standard procedure, not necessarily because authorities suspected foul play, Fleming said.
"Everything we did today was just standard procedure when you have a person who's been injured in a fire," she said.
The fire's cause wasn't immediately clear Thursday morning.
Fort Wayne Police Department spokeswoman Raquel Foster didn't immediately return a call seeking comment.
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