FORT DODGE, Iowa — Multiple families and residents are displaced after a large fire broke out at an apartment building early Sunday morning. Emergency crews responded to an apartment fire at around 1:19 a.m. at the West Ridge Apartments. When firefighters arrived on scene they found the entire backside of a building engulfed in flames. […]
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