1 injured, 4 families displaced after Midvale apartment fire
Nov 15, 2024, 6:10 AM | Updated: 5:10 pm
MIDVALE — One person was injured and four families were displaced from their homes after a Midvale apartment building caught fire early Friday, according to the Unified Fire Authority.
Capt. Tony Barker with UFA said at approximately 2:30 a.m., crews were called to the Wasatch Club Apartments at 60 West Inglenook Drive. They arrived to see smoke and flames, which started in a first-floor unit and worked their way up to the second floor, ultimately damaging a part of the roof. Crews evacuated the entire building.
Fire crews were able to get the fire under control by the early morning hours. One person was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
Four families were displaced from their units, and the flames impacted a total of eight units. All 12 units in the building were evacuated as a result of the fire.
Barker said that due to the time of day the fire started, things could have gone much worse.
“It does pose some really interesting challenges, tactically speaking,” Barker said. One of those challenges: Waking people up all over the building to be evacuated.
Luckily, Barker said, most of the tenants had already gotten out of the building.
Barker said the cause was determined to be a light switch left on that caught some clothes on fire.
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