NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Fire Department battled a 3-alarm fire at 606 Egania Street in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orlreans on Thursday, Sept. 7.
NOFD responded to the call at 12:46 p.m. and arrived at the three-story, nine-unit, wood-framed apartment building five minutes later.
According to the NOFD, the northeast corner of the second-floor balcony was heavily burning with flames already extending into a common attic area above the second floor and the building’s third floor.
A second alarm was sounded at 12:56 p.m. and a third an hour later at 1:59 p.m.
All residents living in eight of the nine occupied apartments evacuated safely.
Twenty-one NOFD units, supported by sixty-two Fire Operations personnel were used to bring this incident under control at 1:35 p.m. There were no firefighter or civilian injuries reported and the cause of the fire is currently under investigation.
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