More than a dozen people are displaced and a woman is in the hospital after a fire broke out at a high-rise apartment complex early Tuesday morning.
Albuquerque fire officials say the fire is still investigating the cause, but neighbors believe they have a pretty good idea on what led to the fire.
"I heard a lot of noise and I thought somebody was fighting because a guy was hitting up against the wall," said Steven Collins, who lives on the second floor of the Encino Terrace Apartments. "I said, 'what in the hell is going on out there?"
Collins said firefighters told him to get out of the building. "I felt safe, like I said, the fire department, they were on their job. They did what they had to do," he said.
The fire started on the eighth floor of senior-living building. People who live on the ninth floor said they heard an explosion.