More than two dozen people are out of their homes Saturday night after an apartment fire that broke out in Phoenix near 27th Avenue and Cactus Road.
It happened in the middle of the day when temperatures were hovering right around 115 degrees on July 22.Black smudges. Burt wood. Water stains. And apartments of people and families now without a place to call home.
"I was sitting in the living room, and I smelled something weird," she said. "I thought it was gas or something that we were smelling, that’s how bad it was, because the whole house started to fill up. A little bit of smoke in there, and I’m like, what is clouding up in here? I have no idea what is clouding up."Phoenix Fire doesn’t know how it started but believes the flames came from a second-story unit before spreading.
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