23 SEPTEMBER 2015
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- Firefights respond to flames shooting out the window of an apartment complex during a 2-alarm fire in Orange on Wednesday.
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- Orange city and Anaheim firefighters responded to a fire in an apartment building in the 2100 block of West Palmyra Avenue in Orange about 11:30 Wednesday morning. One unit of the two storey apartment building was destroyed in the fire.
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- Orange city and Anaheim firefighters cut holes in the roof of a burning two storey apartment building in the 2100 block of West Palmyra Avenue in Orange about 11:30 Wednesday morning. One unit of the two storey apartment building was destroyed in the fire.
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- A firefighter tears out pieces of a burning interior wall in an apartment building in the 2100 block of West Palmyra Avenue in Orange about 11:30 Wednesday morning. One unit of the two storey apartment building was destroyed in the fire.
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- firefighters check the unit next door to the apartment on fire in the 2100 block of West Palmyra Avenue in Orange about 11:30 Wednesday morning. One unit of the two storey apartment building was destroyed in the fire.
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- A firefighter carries personal belongings out of an apartment building in the 2100 block of West Palmyra Avenue in Orange about 11:30 Wednesday morning. One unit of the two storey apartment building was destroyed in the fire.
ORANGE – An apartment unit was destroyed by a two-alarm fire Wednesday in Orange.
The blaze was reported around 11:40 a.m. in a fourplex at Palmyra Studio Manor in the 2100 block of West Palmyra Avenue, said Orange Fire Capt. Casey Fieldhouse.
The first and second floors of the unit were engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived, Fieldhouse said.
No one was home when the fire broke out and there were no injuries. Information about the cause of the fire was not immediately available, Fieldhouse said.
In addition to the destroyed unit, two other units sustained smoke and water damage, Fieldhouse said.
Three residents, one in each of the units, were displaced and are being assisted by the Red Cross and the Orange Fire Department.
Firefighters had the blaze under control by about 12:10 p.m. The Orange Fire Department was assisted by personnel from the Orange County Fire Authority and Anaheim and Garden Grove fire departments.more..
