The Whitewater Fire Department Saturday responded to an apartment fire on Tratt Street.
According to information released by the department also on Saturday firefighters and EMS personnel were dispatched at 8:16 a.m. after receiving a report of a fire at 370 N. Tratt St.
Initial reports noted that fire alarms in the building had been activated and there was reportedly smoke and flames of an unknown origin coming from an apartment.
Crews arrived on the scene at approximately 8:20 a.m. at which time they found smoke visible from the exterior of the building and “numerous” occupants evacuating.
The released noted that firefighters determined that the fire was coming from a downstairs apartment, and was “believed to have started in the kitchen.”
To battle the fire, crews were able to “stretch a line” into the building to extinguish the fire and limit the amount of damage to the structure, the release stated.
Damage from the fire was limited to the apartment of origin. No other apartments within the building were affected, the release noted.
Department officials report that there was no loss of life in the fire, and only the occupants of the apartment in which the fire originated were displaced.
Firefighters remained on the scene after the fire was extinguished to remove smoke from the building using a ventilation process, which, the release noted, took “a couple hours.”
During the fire, a request for mutual aid was made, with help arriving from the following departments: Lauderdale/LaGrange, Jefferson, Lakeside Fire, and Elkhorn.
Smoke and fire damage occurs in a single apartment within a building on Tratt Street. According to Whitewater Fire Department officials, the fire began in the apartment’s kitchen.
An apartment building on Tratt Street. A fire was extinguished at the site, in the 300 block of N. Tratt Street, Saturday morning.
Photos contributed by the fire department through Facebook.
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