Fires damage Bismarck apartment building, detached garage; police consider blazes suspicious | Accident-and-incident

The different fires transpiring at the identical time in the identical complicated “does look to be suspicious,” Lt. Luke Gardiner stated.

Firefighters who responded to the three-tale apartment building in the 400 block of West Century Avenue shortly right after 12:30 a.m. Monday found fire exhibiting from the home windows of a second-ground apartment, and smoke coming from the garage, according to the Bismarck Fireplace Section.

Occupants of the 24-device apartment making were being evacuated. Firefighters stopped the flames from touring by the roof eaves and into the attic, and extinguished the fire in the condominium of origin. They also put out a hearth in one of the garage units.

There have been no accidents. There was hefty fireplace and smoke injury to the apartment of origin, and smoke hurt in the course of the next and third flooring of the building, according to the department.

The fire hurt in the garage making was limited to the garage of origin, but there was smoke destruction in the course of that building, as very well.

Investigators were functioning Monday to identify the result in of the fires, according to city Hearth Marshal Owen Fitzsimmons.

All of the condominium building’s occupants have been displaced, he mentioned. Disaster Treatment Chaplaincy supplied them with assistance in the aftermath of the hearth, and the American Purple Cross was lining up lodge rooms for people not able to return house by Monday night.

A cleansing enterprise was at the scene, and officers hoped to get some of the minimum-afflicted apartments in habitable form by Monday night time, according to Fitzsimmons.