Crime & Safety
Shelter Opens After Massive Apartment Fire Displaces 39 Residents
Nearly 40 residents of an east Charlotte apartment complex were displaced Friday morning in a massive fire that ripped through 15 units.
CHARLOTTE, NC — The Red Cross is opening a shelter at Albemarle Road Middle School Friday at noon for residents and their pets who are displaced from their homes after an early morning fire at an apartment complex in east Charlotte, city emergency officials said.
Charlotte area firefighters responded to the predawn fire that sent flames and smoke into the air of the two-story block at Woodbridge Apartments in the 6000 block of Yateswood Drive around 4:30 a.m., WSOC reported. The block of apartments housed 16 homes, which were all but one affected by the fire, displacing 39 residents and two pets.
Some residents trying to flee their homes were forced to jump Two residents were taken to an area hospital for injuries that were not considered serious, according to WSOC.
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A Red Cross shelter will open at noon July 20 at Albemarle Road Middle School, located at 6900 Democracy Drive, with transportation being provided by Charlotte Area Transit System, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Emergency Management.
The chard remains of an early morning apartment fire the cause two people to go to the hospital and others to jump off of the second story floor. This all happened on the east side of Charlotte. @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/QkULkEoRxZ
— Garry Stanley (@garryWSOC9) July 20, 2018
Photos courtesy of Charlotte Fire Department
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