Multiple fire departments were called out early Thursday morning to battle the flames at a Pleasant Hill apartment building and firefighters had to rescue a trapped resident from their third-floor balcony. Fire crews were called out to the Peterson Place Apartments at 770 North Pleasant Hill Blvd. around 1:30 a.m. According to Pleasant Hill Assistant Fire Chief Ryan Hill when they arrived heavy flames were seen coming from the third floor of the complex. Firefighters were able to contain the fire mainly to the west side of the building. Resident Montae Love told Channel 13’s Whitney Blakemore the fire started while he was cooking. “I go to drop my food in, I look up, there some little flames spurting above the microwave so I try to go and put it out…grab just a little bit of air motion, spread it across the ceiling and the ceiling just kind of blew up and just started blowing with smoke and everything."