Nobody was injured in an early morning fire Sunday at the Thompson Apartments near St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston.
The fire at the building on the corner of Third Avenue and Sixth Street started about 5:30 a.m. said resident Kylee Tolle, who was getting ready to go to work when she heard a fire alarm and smelled smoke.
“I said ‘You need to call 911. There is a fire in our building,’ ” Tolle said to her partner, Mathias Hamilton.
Hamilton did and then banged on the doors of other residents and helped some evacuate. Smoke was spewing from one apartment where the fire seemed to be centered. Hamilton could hear his neighbors inside so he opened the door.
“There was so much smoke I couldn’t see anything,” he said. “I just started feeling into the smoke and when I felt them I pulled them out into the hallway.”