4 people and a dog displaced after KC fire crews battle overnight blazes
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- Kansas City fire crews responded to three separate residential fires early Saturday.
- Red Cross was summoned to assist two adults after the Terrace Street fire.
- A third blaze at a vacant Myrtle Avenue house displaced an adult, a child and a dog.
Kansas City fire crews responded to three separate residential fires early Saturday, authorities said.
One of the fires displaced two people. No injuries were reported; the cause of the fires is under investigation. An adult, a child and a dog were displaced by another fire, according to Fire Department officials.
The first blaze was reported just after midnight. Firefighters arrived at a residence in the 7500 block of North Kentucky Avenue at 12:22 a.m., Battalion Chief Riley Nolan said in an email.
Crews reported signs of heavy smoke and fire coming from a two-story house. No one was inside. It took fire crews about 10 minutes to put out the blaze. No injuries were reported; no damage estimate was immediately available.
Fire crews were called to a second blaze that was reported in the 4200 block of Terrace Street at 1:40 a.m.
Firefighters reported seeing smoke coming from the third floor of the three-story apartment building. Once inside, fire crews found flames in the attic and quickly extinguished them, Nolan said.
No injuries were reported. The Red Cross was called to assist two adults. Crews were called to a third fire at a vacant two-story house in the 3800 block of Myrtle Avenue at 3:08 a.m. That residence had an extension to a neighboring house.
The residence collapsed, and fire crews put out the blaze. The Red Cross was called to the scene to assist an adult, a child and a dog, Nolan said.