Smoke and flames raced through a south Denver apartment building this afternoon, sending one infant to a nearby hospital with possible smoke inhalation and displacing 14 people from their homes.
The condition of the infant and the child’s identity was not immediately known.
Firefighters responded about 5 p.m. to the Avon apartments, 2850 S. Federal Boulevard, where flames reportedly started in a garden-level apartment and spread inside the walls up to the first and second floors, Denver Fire Department division chief Jim Hunsaker said.
The fire appeared to have resulted from plumbing work that somehow ignited, Hunsaker said.
It took firefighters about 20 minutes to stamp out the smoke and flames, rendering five apartments untenable, Hunsaker said.
One firefighter suffered a minor injury, a muscle strain, that required medical treatment, Hunsaker said.
In all eight adults and six children were displaced from their homes, but the apartment building’s landlord told authorities it might be possible to get them into new units within a few days.
The Red Cross responded to render care for those residents evacuated.
