News & Record
HIGH POINT, N.C. — A fire destroyed a High Point apartment building early Sunday and left two people injured and 12 families displaced.
At 5 a.m., crews with the High Point Fire Department were dispatched to 2225 Shadow Valley Road at the Hunter’s Point apartments in Davidson County on a two-alarm fire, Capt. Denita Lynch said.
Crews arrived to find flames coming out of the roof of the building. Fire crews battled the blaze for about a half hour before getting it extinguished.
The blaze completely destroyed the building’s roof and left 12 apartments uninhabitable.
Two adults were taken to a hospital with unspecified injuries.
Lynch said the fire is believed to have started on the second floor of the building and said a firewall kept the flames from spreading to other buildings. The building was equipped with smoke detectors but did not have sprinklers.
She said the fire damaged the building so extensively that an investigator will not be able to go inside and will have to rely on interviews with occupants to determine a cause.
The Red Cross is assisting the displaced families and the apartment’s management is working to move them into other units.
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