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Fire started, i can tell you crews are still hard at work here. We are in a plaza thats pretty much adjacent to where these four apartment buildings caught on fire. You can still see they have those aerials going, lots of water, about 1500 gallons of water being spewed about a minute right now. I can tell you within the last ten minutes, we have seen small fires still sparking in these buildings, a lot of smoldering going on, and the crews are still working from the outside because the structure is not safe for them to go inside. Drastic its drastically definite from what we initially saw. Well go ahead and show you some video that was sent into the fox 10 news room that shows these buildings in flames. Again, the battalion chief tells me about four buildings caught on fire here. During that time, two buildings also near these apartment buildings also had to be evacuated due to the heat that was coming from this fire and a lot of smoke, about 2530 people they already know the structure ....
To jump from a first alarm to a fouralarm fire in the blink of an eye. Stefania okolie reports on this developing story. Stefania . Yeah, thats right, linda. Investigators say it was all about what was up in the apartment buildings. Construction crews just had up the wood, so that made fire burn very fast and very easily. In a matter of minutes, a single alarm fire fire and gilbert fire rescue crews were battling these ferocious flames, four apartment buildings destroyed, three of them ultimately collapsing. The fire spreading not only because of the intense heat but the framework, mostly plywood. Without drywall you up, the rate at which flames spread is drastically different. Its much faster. Within a few minutes, it had got out. Buildings nearby were evacuated, families forced to wait on the corners. We felt very stranded. We didnt have any of our belongings, our phones. I was pretty freaked out. It was pretty overwhelming. The scene like what we saw back in april at gilbert road. T ....
To jump from a first alarm to a fouralarm fire in the blink of an eye. Stefania okolie reports on this developing story. Stefania . Yeah, thats right, linda. Investigators say it was all about what was up in the apartment buildings. Construction crews just had up the wood, so that made fire burn very fast and very easily. In a matter of minutes, a single alarm fire fire and gilbert fire rescue crews were battling these ferocious flames, four apartment buildings destroyed, three of them ultimately collapsing. The fire spreading not only because of the intense heat but the framework, mostly plywood. Without drywall you up, the rate at which flames spread is drastically different. Its much faster. Within a few minutes, it had got out. Buildings nearby were evacuated, families forced to wait on the corners. We felt very stranded. We didnt have any of our belongings, our phones. I was pretty freaked out. It was pretty overwhelming. The scene like what we saw back in april at gilbert road. T ....