MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE FIREFIGHTERS HAD A COMPOUND PROBLEM Monday morning around 2:15 am.
Fire broke out in a 4th-floor apartment in a 12-story high-rise building that primarily houses elderly people. The fire completely burned out the unit sending a lot of smoke into the floors above. The entire building had to be evacuated.
Fire officials are crediting smoke detectors for being the major reason there were no fatalities. The resident of the unit where the fire started was roused by the detector leading to a timely call to the FD. Approx. 75 firefighters responded and the fire was extinguished within 12 minutes. The bulk of the force was devoted to evacuations.
Four of the residents had to be taken out of their apartments and transported to the hospital for smoke inhalation. The youngest was a mere 79 yrs.-old. The others were ages 82, 98 and …… 101.
WPTY Channel 24 was able to sit down with the 101-yr.-old, Etta Chase, and talk with her about the fire and her first-ever experience of being carried away by a fireman:
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