Contact: Annette Ponce, PIO
Date: August 1, 2001
Office: 214-670-7949 Immediate Release
Pager : 214-670-4115,code 9885
Three-Alarm Fire Damages Four Story Apartment
Complex
Date of Incident: August 1, 2001
Location: Summerlake
Village Apartments, Bldg 9
7851 Willow Hill Crt
Response: Three Alarms
14 Major pieces of equipment
Times: 1st alarm 5:37
p.m.
2nd
alarm 5:44 p.m.
3rd
alarm 5:59 p.m.
Under
Control @6:30 p.m.
Cause: Electrical
Failure
Damages: $500,000-Structure
$8,500-Content
Details: The fire started on the
roof of this four-story north Dallas
apartment complex. The fire appears to have been started by maintenance men who
were conducting some work on the A/C units above apartment #341. The fire
quickly spread causing damage to 18 units in building nine. There were no
injuries as a result of this fire. Approximately 14 pieces of equipment and 56
firefighters were needed to fight this fire.