Five people rescued from a burning apartment building in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood were sent to the hospital Saturday morning.
Fire crews responded to reports of smoke coming from an apartment building near East 22nd Avenue and North Clarkson Street, the Denver Fire Department said in an 8 a.m. statement on social media.
Denver firefighters rescued people from the upper floors of the building using ladder trucks and quickly extinguished the blaze, the fire department stated.
Paramedics transported five people to hospitals after the fire, but their condition is unknown, the fire department said in an 8:24 a.m. update.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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Lauren Penington
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