One person was killed in a high-rise apartment building fire early Thursday in Hammond, Indiana.
Residents told FOX 32 that alarms sounded and firefighters arrived quickly or it could have been so much worse.
The fatality was found in a ninth floor unit of the Renaissance Apartment building where the fire is believed to have started. Hammond firefighters were called to the Renaissance Towers Building at 524 Michigan St. just before 3 a.m. Flames were shooting from windows on the ninth and 10th floors at the time. Firefighters were forced to make some rescues where residents were trapped by the heavy smoke.The coroner's office was called to the scene and confirmed one death from the fire."Do you see the apartment up there, the top floor 10? I'm right across from there," Adams said. I was asleep and I heard the alarm go off. Bum, bum, bum! And I woke up and I go out there and I see nothing but smoke.
"When I came out there wasn't nobody in the hall nothing but black smoke and I couldn't see. I had to feel my way to come downstairs. I slipped and fell and cut myself getting up out of there, but I got out of there," Adams said.As of 10 a.m., there was no official word from the fire department about the cause of the fire.The Red Cross is assisting about 15 victims who firefighters are not allowing to return to their units.
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