Structure Fire 3061 Lois Drive

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14 units with 30 personnel responded to a reported structure fire in a multi family condo unit in the Spenard area at 4:06 PM.  A 911 caller from an adjacent unit was reporting heavy dark black smoke from the deck of an upper story unit with flames moving into the roof eaves above.

The first arriving unit was Engine 5 from the Spenard Road fire station.  They made an agressive attack of the fire from the internal stairway into the apartment unit. They were able to knock the fire down but the ceiling and roof area above the fire collapsed and the fire travelled laterally above the top floor units in the attic space.  Firefighers were not injured in the roof collapse.  

Firefighters were able to access the attic area and extinguish the fire and limit damage to the adjacent upper story units.  Some of the adjacent units did suffer minor water and smoke damage but firefighters kept the flames out of other units. No one was home in the unit where the fire broke out. Another occupant of an adjacent unit was awakened from a nap by his smoke detector going off and was able to safely exit the building.

Firefighters believe the fire started on the deck of the upper unit and spread into the attic space.  The renters in this unit were smokers and did use the deck area to go outside and smoke but were not at home at the time of the fire.  Burned cushions and other materials were found on the deck in the area of the heaviest fire. The cause is still under investigation. Damage is estimated at more than $100,000 to the structure.