Thursday, August 07, 2008

KANSAS CITY'S BREAKING NEWS: High-Rise Fire With Injuries In KC-MO



A "high-rise" building fire alarm response of 10 companies has gone to a fire- "reported by police" in a 5th-floor apartment- in the 1200 block of East Linwood in Midtown KC-MO..

Residents in the building were evacuating when the first pumper company pulled up 2 minutes after the 2:58pm alarm sounded. No smoke or fire was visible they said.

At 3:02pm- a fire crew reports "a mattress" on fire and it's "mostly" out.

At 3:05pm- there's at least one building occupant who has reported to have suffered smoke inhalation- then a minute later a fire crew on the fire floor reported a female patient who had "taken in a lot of smoke" and was in serious condition.

At 3:10pm- "3 patients" are reported by a KC-MO Fire chief.

MAST-EMS has several units either on-scene or enroute.

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