<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4L7gip_0wMGNBer00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4L7gip_0wMGNBer00" width="1280" height="720" >SHREVEPORT, La. -- For the second time in as many weeks, a fire has destroyed a vacant apartment building at The Jolie. <img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2HRemx_0wMGNBer00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2HRemx_0wMGNBer00" width="1280" height="720" >Shreveport firefighters responded just after 11:30 a.m. Wednesday to the complex on Quail Creek. Seventeen fire units were still there at 1 p.m. <figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1jMrZz_0wMGNBer00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1jMrZz_0wMGNBer00" width="1539" height="859" ><figcaption>Courtesy: James Briscoe</figcaption></figure>Flames were seen coming from the roof of the building, which is located a short distance away from where remnants mark the location of another fire on Oct. 11. As soon as that fire was extinguished, the city's Public Works Department moved in with an excavator to demolish the structure. The same happened today. The building where the fire occurred was flattened to prevent any injuries from collapse or rekindle. Fire Chief Clarence Reese called the fire a challenge, but something they're used to, especially since there are no working fire hydrants on the property. "We adapt, we overcome. We caught a fire hydrant on Riley. We saw we had to cross over a levee. They had to hand stretch that so that creates a danger uphill, downhill. We have to go through someone's yard. So I'm going to go talk to a lot of the neighbors over there, especially where the fire hydrants are and let them know it's a very it's a good possibility we may have to go through their back yard at 3:00 in the morning. And of course, if you come through anybody's backyard at 3:00 in the morning, that creates a problem. And I'm worried about firefighters being injured, shot, stabbed, or anything else because you feel like you may have an intruder. So we're going to do our due diligence to go talk to the residents on Riley Lane and make sure they know that that's a it's a it's an option for us at this point until we can come up with some other means of using those fire hydrants," Reese said. This marks the fifth fire at the complex since it was evacuated earlier this year when the utilities were disconnected.The fire hydrants on the property are inoperable since the complex is supposed to be closed. Trespassers are prohibited on the property. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. </div></body>

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Another fire at the shuttered Jolie Apartments

SHREVEPORT, La. -- For the second time in as many weeks, a fire has destroyed a vacant apartment building at The Jolie. Shreveport firefighters responded just after 11:30 a.m. Wednesday to the complex on Quail Creek. Seventeen fire units were still there at 1 p.m. Flames were seen coming from...