Overview
- Firefighters found heavy flames on the first and second floors at 3939 Omeara Drive and knocked the fire down.
- Eight of 24 apartments were left heavily burned, and the other units took on water during the response.
- Medics assessed two people, with one person taken to a hospital for treatment.
- Crews searched the building and carried out cats and dogs that survived.
- Officials said the flat roof and absence of sprinklers in the older complex increased the difficulty of putting out the fire.