Firefighters battle major blaze at Denver apartment complex under construction
DENVER– More than 100 firefighters battled a large fire Friday evening as it tore through a three-story apartment complex under construction in southeast Denver, officials said.
Firefighters continued to work to put out the fire more than two hours after it started, said Robert Murphy, Denver Fire Division chief of operations.
“It’s major,” he said. “I can’t tell you the last time in Denver we had a three-alarm fire this big.”
No injuries were reported, according to firefighters.
The building sits next to a major thoroughfare that Denver police said was temporarily closed in both directions in a post on the social platform X.
Some residents of a nearby building were advised to leave because of the heat from the fire, Murphy said.
The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management said in an article on X that the fire caused “significant power outages.” Authorities opened a temporary night shelter at an event center in the nearby town of Glendale.
