Overview
- Crews responded just before 10 a.m. Saturday to a fire at 1005 Portland Avenue, the Balmoral apartment building near Elliot Park, and saw smoke and flames from third-floor windows.
- Firefighters called a second alarm to bring extra resources and located and extinguished the bulk of the fire on the building's third floor.
- One firefighter was taken to the hospital with a non-life-threatening injury and no residents were reported hurt.
- Four apartments were damaged or made uninhabitable and the American Red Cross is assisting displaced residents.
- The Minneapolis Fire Department is investigating the origin of the blaze and has not yet released a determined cause or a timeline for when affected residents can return.