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OMAHA, Neb. — A 40-year-old apartment building in Council Bluffs that caught fire Tuesday had a double-roof, allowing flames to travel horizontally between walls and complicating firefighters’ efforts to stop them.
After nearly four hours, the flames that crawled over the Greenbriar apartments at 1400 Franklin Ave. were contained, but the damage was widespread. Dozens of tenants were left homeless, their former homes left charred, layered with smoke and soaked with water.
The flames damaged 16 of 32 units. It wasn’t the birthday surprise Linda Janca was expecting.
Full story: A maintenance worker took a torch to a pipe, accidentally starting the fire