Seventeen people are displaced due to a late night fire that occurred at an apartment building in Phoenix Saturday night, the American Red Cross reported Sunday morning.
According to the Phoenix Fire Department, crews went to an apartment building in the area of 32nd Street and and Peoria Avenue around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday night after reports of smoke coming from it.
When firefighters arrived, they met with heavy smoke and flames coming from a window and door of a second-floor apartment. Due to the size of the building, the fire was upgraded to a first alarm. Fire crews immediately started extinguishing the fire and looking for any needing rescue.
The fire was successfully extinguished without it spreading to the remainder of the building.
The smoke and fire damage has displaced residents from four units.
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An adult woman was found dead in a bedroom of a Phoenix home that caught fire late Sunday night, firefighters say.
According to Phoenix Fire, firefighters were dispatched to the area of 59th Avenue and Cheery Lynn Road for reports of smoke just before midnight. Firefighters checked a neighborhood and found a house fire. Firefighters put out the fire in a bedroom of the home but found an adult woman dead.
Phoenix Fire says smoke detectors in the home were operating and the fire is under investigation.
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A 3-year-old boy is in extremely critical condition after a reported drowning near 13th Avenue and Union Hills Drive, according to the Phoenix Fire Department.
The drowning was reported at 8:54 a.m. and firefighters arrived on the scene within 3-4 minutes, treated the child and transported the boy to a hospital, Phoenix Fire said. How the drowning happened is unclear at this time.
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A human-caused wildfire burning for more than two weeks in a national forest east of metro Phoenix grew to 150 square miles over the weekend.
Fire officials say the Woodbury Fire grew by nearly 22 square miles from Saturday into Sunday. That's after about a 25 square mile increase from Friday night into Saturday. As of Monday morning, the fire has burned 112,899 acres.
A fire spokeswoman says containment has slipped from 34 percent to 24 percent because of the acreage increases.
Woodbury Fire spokeswoman Pamela Mathis says most new fire growth is occurring within the fire lines that containment crews have created. “But it's important for people to understand that a lot of that is interior burning so the parameter grew a little bit but most of that extra acreage is what burned inside the already existing parameter.”
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VIDEO: A small brush fire that forced the closure of both directions of the State Route 87 between Phoenix and Payson on Saturday was fully contained on Sunday, officials said.
Tonto National Forest officials said firefighters overnight were able to contain the Slate Fire at 226 acres.
The fire caused traffic delays on SR 87, even after both directions were reopened by 9 p.m. Saturday. The cause of the fire, which the Arizona Department of Public Safety said started as a vehicle fire, is under investigation.
No injuries have been reported.
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