1-Year-Old Among Five Residents Rescued from Burning Apartment

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Five residents, including an infant, were rescued from their burning Langley Park apartment building by firefighters; the blaze has left 42 people homeless, officials said Monday.

At around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Prince George’s County firefighters and paramedics were called to a fire in a three-story apartment building in the 2100 block of Guilford Road in Langley Park. Firefighters arrived to find fire showing from a top floor unit and were told residents were trapped.

While some firefighters searched the building’s interior, other firefighters used ground ladders to remove five people from their top floor windows. The occupants could not use the interior stairwell because of the intense heat and thick, toxic smoke.

The fire was contained and extinguished within 15 minutes of firefighters’ arrival, according to the department’s blog.

One of the five occupants rescued was a 1-year-old infant, who was taken by medics to a hospital for an evaluation of smoke inhalation. The infant is reportedly in good condition.

No other injuries were reported to either residents or firefighters. One cat was removed alive from the building.

Residents – 35 adults and seven children -- have been displaced from all 12 units in the building, authorities said.

WATCH: Video of conditions on arrival by Tim Keiling of the Hyattsville Volunteer Fire Department. Click here.

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