A fire of large proportions was unleashed this Sunday night in an apartment building in North Miami Beach, forcing its neighbors to evacuate the property and for the moment no injuries or fatalities have been reported in the event.
The accident took place in the building Suncoast Place Apartments located at 999 NE 167th St. The five-story 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 knocks on the doors,” one of them told Local 10 News. “I didn’t think much of it until my family yelled and said something so I had to get out. When we were coming out, that’s when we could smell all the smoke.”
Authorities are investigating the cause of the fire, but did not immediately release more details about the extent of damage to the apartment units.
Images recorded by the aforementioned medium revealed several fire 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 the miami-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 to Local 10 News a resident. “I ran her out the door, we saw smoke and we got out here and we’ve been out ever since.”
Several witnesses claimed to have heard the alarms and observed the thick smoke that filled the corridors. Likewise, several people were transferred on stretchers so that paramedics could review them.
At the end of April, a raging fire left more than 20 people homeless in the neighborhood of Little Havana, in Miami.
A total of 16 adults and six children lost everything after the incident that occurred on the second floor of a wooden house, at Southwest 13th Avenue and 6th Street, reduced their belongings to ashes, according to a note from Miami NBC.
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 to an apartment on fire around 10:30 a.m. near the 39500 block of Northwest 177th Street.
Upon arrival at the scene, firefighters found intense fire throughout the structure and were unable to bring 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 house with several occupants trapped inside. They extinguished the flames and rescued three people still alive.
