VIDEO: Fierce flames forced more than a dozen residents out of an apartment building in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood.
City of Miami Fire Rescue units responded to multiple calls of a fire at an apartment complex along the 900 block of Southwest Seventh Street, in the Riverview subdivision, just after 3 a.m. Saturday.
Crews arrived to find the three-story, six-unit structure with heavy smoke and flames showing on the second and third floors.
“Rather quickly, they made an initial fire attack, and during the search, they encountered that the first floor was actually unoccupied — some of the windows were boarded up — so, initially it was thought that the building was unoccupied,” said Miami Fire Rescue Lt. Pete Sanchez, “but then, after further investigation, they found that there were residents on the second and third floors.”