Dallas Apartment Complex Destroyed In Fire

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A 4-alarm fire caused by a 7-year-old has displaced 22 residents.

Dallas Fire-Rescue received a call early Saturday morning from the Forest Edge Apartments on Audelia Road.

When they arrived, they found a 2-story apartment building with flames shooting from the roof.

All 12 units of the apartment complex were destroyed.

The apartment's security guard was the only person to sustain a minor injury.

Investigators tell NBC 5 the fire was accidental in nature, and that a 7-year-old boy had started the fire by playing with a lighter inside a closet.

The boy will be enrolled in the DFR's Juvenile Firesetters Intervention Program.