Three people were sent to the hospital after a four unit apartment building caught fire near 44th and Cornhusker around 10:30 Monday morning. “We had one adult transported to the hospital and we had two minors transported,” says Battalion Chief Curt Faust. “We’re looking at some smoke inhalation and some minor burns, non life-threatening injuries.”
Faust says there was heavy smoke and flames coming from one of the units when they arrived around 10:30 a.m. He says damage to the one unit is estimated at $100,000 and the cause was a child playing with a cigarette lighter.
Five people living in that apartment were displaced. Firefighters used oxygen to save one of the family’s two cats. The other one died in the fire.