Andfire of large proportions broke out on Sunday night in an apartment building in North Miami Beach, forcing its neighbors to evacuate the property and at the moment without reports of injuries or fatalities in the event.
The accident took place in the buildingSuncoast Place Apartments located at 999 NE 167th St. The five-story high building began to burn at night, surprising many of its tenants in their apartments.
“I was in the shower, I was washing my hair, I heard knocking on the doors,” one of them toldLocal 10 News. “I didn't think much about it until my family screamed and said something, so I had to leave. When we were leaving, that's when we could smell all the smoke.”
Authorities are investigating the cause of the fire, but did not immediately release further details about the extent of damage to the apartment units.
Images recorded by the aforementioned media showed several firefighting units that traveled to the scene, including a crane and two tanker trucks.
People of all ages, including families with children, sat and watched as theMiami-Dade firefighters They entered and left the building to put out the fire in their homes.
“I was at home with my mom,” he explained toLocal 10 News a resident. “I ran her out the door, we saw smoke and we came out here and we've been out here ever since.”
Several witnesses claimed to have heard the alarms and observed the thick smoke filling the hallways. Likewise, several people were transferred on stretchers so that paramedics could check them.
At the end of April,A raging fire left more than 20 people homeless in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami.
A total of 16 adults and six children lost everything after the accident that occurred on the second floor of a wooden house, on Southwest 13th Avenue and 6th Street, reduced their belongings to ashes, according to a news release.NBC Miami.
At the end of January,A fire consumed the structure of an apartment building in Miami Gardens. According to the Miami-Dade Fire Department, crews received a call of an apartment fire around 10:30 a.m. m. near the 39500 block of Northwest 177th Street.
Upon arriving at the scene, firefighters found intense fire throughout the structure and were not able to put the fire under control until 12:34 p.m.
Days before,A four-month-old boy and his great-grandmother died in a fire occurred in an apartment in southwest Miami-Dade. According to Telemundo, around 3:30 am the county Fire Department was notified of a fire alarm activated near the 101500 block of West Circle Plaza, in West Perrine.
When firefighters arrived at the scene, there was a fire in a home with several occupants trapped inside. They put out the flames and rescued three people still alive.
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