Firefighters with the Indianapolis Fire Department rescued 20 occupants from an apartment fire that sent 13 people to the hospital.
Firefighter were called to the Pangea Courts Apartments Wednesday morning for a reported fire.
Upon arrival, fire crews found heavy fire conditions on the first floor of a three-story building with multiple occupants trying to evacuate the structure, according to the Indianapolis Fire Department.
Firefighters threw ground ladders on multiple sides of the building to bring occupants to safety through windows, down ladders, and doorways.
Fire officials stated, 13 of the occupants (10 children and 3 adults) were transported to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries. One of the patients transported was a 21-day-old infant. One of the juvenile patients had jumped from the second-story window.
The fire department said many occupants didn’t evacuate when the alarms sounded as the say alarms activate all the time. Firefighters found several units without working detectors and detectors removed from the ceiling.
