2 firefighters, 4 residents injured in Madisonville apartment fire
3 families displaced by fire, authorities say
A four-alarm fire in a Madisonville apartment complex took the life of a firefighter Thursday morning. Daryl Gordon died after falling down an elevator shaft while searching for people who needed to be rescued.
바카라게임 has learned six others, including two other firefighters and a 3-month-old boy, were also hurt in the fire.
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Four civilians were hurt and transported to the the hospital, including a 3-month-old boy. He was transported to Cincinnati Children바카라 게임 웹사이트s Medical Center and admitted due to injuries he sustained.
Two other firefighters were injured in the fire. They suffered minor burn injuries, were transported to the hospital and released, according to city officials.
Watch: 온라인 바카라 게임 conference regarding fallen firefighter, FAO Daryl Gordon
The fire broke out about 5:30 a.m. at the King Towers Apartments at 6020 Dahlgren Street. The fire started in the second floor of the five-story apartment building, crews said.
Residents of the King Towers apartments described waking up in fear and confusion.
Lauren Brown told 바카라게임 she believes the fire started in the apartment across the hall from her on the second floor.
Brown said she was awakened early Thursday morning by the fire.
바카라 게임 웹사이트I started smelling smoke and I went to my living room and all this smoke was coming through my door. I opened the door and the hallway was pitch black. It was covered in smoke,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Brown said.
She said she woke up her son, got dressed and got out of the building.
Other people had a more difficult time escaping.
Ashley Whitney was up early Thursday before hearing a fire alarm go off. She said she got her 3-month-old son, Cashmere, as smoke started coming into her fifth-floor apartment.
She said she headed out onto her balcony, but it, too, was overtaken by a rising cloud. She frantically called her parents and a friend.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Telling them to tell the firefighters, come to the fifth floor, 57, I have a three-month-old son that needs to get out of here," Whitney said.
Cashmere Wright was one of four people taken to the hospital from the King Towers apartment fire.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Five minutes later, if that firefighter didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t come, we would바카라 게임 웹사이트ve been dead, me and my son," said Whitney. 바카라 게임 웹사이트I바카라 게임 웹사이트m just blessed and glad that we are still living.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Whitney said she didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t know the firefighter who rescued her, but wanted him to know her prayers are with him.
Ricky Gray said he had to climb out of the building from his patio on the second floor.
He said he saw flames and smoke pouring from the apartment next to him.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Just smoke all in my apartment and I tried to go out the front door. I couldn바카라 게임 웹사이트t go out the front door so I had to go out my patio,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Gray said.
As the flames and smoke spread through the building, people went to their patios to escape the smoke while firefighters worked to rescue them with ladders.
바카라 게임 웹사이트I saw probably about five people come down the ladder. People were stuck on their balconies,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Brown said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트There were people up on the fifth floor. They couldn바카라 게임 웹사이트t get down, they had to go up there and get them down,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Gray said.
King Towers resident Felton Mitchell, 68, spent the afternoon on the bus without his insulin.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Only thing I got, I threw my keys, just that I saved my life at first, save my life first and then I worry about the other stuff later," Mitchell said with a Red Cross blanket around him. 바카라 게임 웹사이트But, I didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t think to grab my glasses off the table.바카라 게임 웹사이트
While working to search the building, firefighter Gordon was killed and another firefighter suffered second-degree burns.
바카라게임 saw people being treated on the scene and getting checked out after being rescued.
Multiple crews were called to the scene to help get the fire out.
The Community Builders released a statement Thursday morning after the fire. Click here to see full statement or see image below:
Authorities said three families were displaced by the fire.
Two firefighters who sustained minor burns have been treated and released.
Just as when firefighter Oscar Armstrong died in the line of duty in 2003, fire companies have visited the scene of Thursday바카라 게임 웹사이트s fatal fire to get an understanding of where it happened and how.
The way Gordon died is weighing heavily on firefighters and on the people who live at the apartment complex.
바카라 게임 웹사이트The elevator in this building on each floor, you have to pull the door open and then the elevator will slide open," Brown said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트So, I could see it almost looking like an apartment or something because you actually have to pull the door open and then walk in.바카라 게임 웹사이트
The fire remains under investigation.