16 people displaced after central Las Vegas apartment fire

LAS VEGAS ( KLAS ) —  Four people were injured and 16 people were displaced from their homes after a fire at an apartment building in central Las Vegas late Sunday evening.

“Just flames and dark smoke consuming the neighborhood. “It gives me chills, I feel for the families affected,” Melanie Hanson said as she watched the blaze.

Just before 7:45 p.m., fire crews responded to 3937 Spencer Street, the Riverbend Village Apartments, after a report of a structure fire. First responders found the blaze affecting multiple apartments in the complex.

Alicia Garcia fled her apartment with just the clothes she was wearing.

“Now everything is lost. I left my money in there, my purse, my keys for the car.”

Four people were taken to area medical facilities due to burns and other injuries that took place during the evacuation. No one was fatally injured, officials said.

No firefighters were injured, and the investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing, fire officials said.

A total of 10 engines, two ladder trucks, two reduces, one squad, and one air resource unit, along with one EMS coordinator, three battalion chiefs, and three investigators, were involved in fighting the blaze, officials said.

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