The 234 Apartment

Fire officials are still investigating a cause for a fire that displaced numerous residents in an apartment complex early Thursday morning . No one was seriously injured in the 1 a.m. blaze that sparked in a second-floor unit in the 600 block of N. Virginia Road, fire officials said. However, several people were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation and released. Officials said a phoned 9-1-1 saying she was trapped in her apartment by flames and smoke. She was later rescued by members of the fire department , officials said. In addition, Crystal Lake Police officers initiated evacuation of the building and helped rescue people on second and third floor balconies prior to the arrival by the fire department . Firefighters said heavy smoke was showing on the second and third floors of the building upon their arrival, and that people were trapped in their apartments and on their balconies on the second and third floors. Firefig...

THREE OAKS, Mich. (WNDU) - UPDATE People who escaped an apartment fire in Three Oaks are going back to save any belongings they can carry. 14 families had to evacuate as Hidden Harbor Villas caught fire early Saturday morning . A Michigan State Police fire investigator says the fire started in a vacant apartment on the second floor near the utility closet but he says it's not suspicious and he doesn't believe it was arson. That's not much comfort to the families, only two of whom had renters insurance. Melissa Lawson, one of those affected, said, "We were running to just get out the door. She had some clothes in the diaper bag, but she was just in her diaper and we grabbed a blanket. Nobody had shoes, no one. " Peter Trigg, another person affected, said, "Honestly, I'm not worried about what I can save. I thought everything was a loss, and everything I can find is just a blessing. It's absolutely a blessing." Neighbors say t...

LAS VEGAS (KXNT) – Las Vegas Fire and Rescue said five adults and three children from two separate apartments are being helped by the American Red Cross after fire ripped through their apartment. Las Vegas firefighters responded to the Green Tree Apartments , 517 N. 28th Street, on Sunday around 2:35 p.m., after fire dispatchers received calls that a fire was burning in the yard behind the apartment. When firefighters arrived, they found that the outside fire had spread to the two story wood frame/stucco apartment building. Other firefighters arrived within minutes and found the fire had spread to an upstairs apartment . they had the fire under control in just a few minutes. The fire was contained to the one apartment. One bedroom was gutter, and the next bedroom had heavy heat and smoke damage. There was minor damage to the apartment next door enough that the people that lived there will be displaced. Damage was estimated at $70,000. Fire investigators think the fire started in s...

Three of the four men charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting the girl are also behind bars. The men are from Honduras, immigrants who found a home at the Heatherwood Apartments. The complex, near Peoria and Colfax in Aurora, is a racial melting pot , one that came to a boil on August 7, when a girl trying to leap to womanhood in a single summer got a very adult lesson. The violence bred more violence -- and more victims. News accounts the next day reported that a seventy-person mob had delivered street justice to one of the accused rapists. Although the reports weren't quite right -- nothing in this saga is -- street justice may be the only justice here. Anna grew up in the neighborhood and has a huge family of siblings and half-siblings. Anna has another daughter who was also taken away by Social Services when Anna went to prison. The girls have a baby brother, too, a child Anna gave birth to after she got out of prison two years ago. That baby has a different father w...