100 Firefighters Battle Four Alarm Apartment Fire

 

100 Dallas Firefighters battled a Four Alarm Apartment fire this afternoon, in the 1900 block of Fitzhugh Av. The first arriving firefighters reported out with a “two-story vacant apartment building with a lot of smoke and fire”.  25 pieces of heavy firefighting were used to control the intense blaze. Fire Investigators are in the process of searching for a fire cause and determining a damage estimate.

 

 

RELEASE DATE

TIME

PUBLIC INFORMATION CONTACTS

 

July 1, 2004

 

8:30 p.m.

 

Lt. Joel Lavender

jlavend@mail.ci.dallas.tx.us

 

ADDRESS

OCCUPANCY TYPE

Ph#  214-670-7949

Pager 214-670-4115 Pin # 9885

 

1902  FITZHUGH AV.

 

 

Multi-Family

STRUCTURAL LOSS

CONTENTS LOSS

CIVILIANS INJURED

CIVILIAN FATALITIES

 

 

 

 

 

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0

 

 

0

 

 

TOTAL FIREFIGTHERS

FIREFIGHTER INJURIES

FIREFIGHTER FATALITIES

TOTAL HEAVY FIRE APPARATUS

 

 

100

 

 

0

 

0

 

 

25

 

 

 

 

TOTAL RESCUE AMBULANCES

TIME TO CONTROL INCIDENT

DAMAGED

APARTMENT

 

 

 

2

 

 

120 min

 

 

 

 

0

 

 

0

ALARMS

INCIDENT CAUSE

 

 

1st Alarm: 5:28 p.m., 2nd Alarm: 5:34 p.m., 3rd Alarm: 5:51 p.m., 4th Alarm: 6:03 p.m.,

Out Taps@ 7:30

 

 

 

Undetermined at this time