Multiple people are without a home following an early morning, two-alarm fire in Minneapolis' Near North neighborhood on Thursday morning.
Minneapolis Fire responded at 3:21 a.m. Thursday to reports of a fire at the three-story apartment complex located at 1611 Plymouth Avenue North. Fire crews evacuated everyone safely out of the building, initially finding fire on the apartment's first two levels. That fire quickly spread to the third level as firefighters worked to extinguish the flames.
No one was injured and an MTC bus was called in to the scene to temporarily shelter residents from the cold. Fire crews used CPR to revive a cat that was found inside the apartment complex. The cat, which is expected to be OK, was returned to its owner.
A second fire was reported Thursday morning in south Minneapolis on the 5700 block of 34th Avenue. Minneapolis Fire used ladders to evacuate residents through windows of the three-story apartment complex just east of Bossen Field Park and north of Highway 62.
One person was treated for smoke inhalation and two people were displaced.
The cause of both fires is under investigation.
