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DENVER (AP) — More than 100 firefighters battled a large blaze
Friday evening as it tore through a three-story apartment
complex under construction in southeast Denver, officials said.
Firefighters were continuing to work to extinguish the blaze
more than two hours after it started, said Robert Murphy,
division chief of operations for Denver Fire.
“It's major," he said. "I can't tell you the last time in Denver
we had a three-alarm fire this big.”
There have been no reports of injuries, according to the fire
department.
The building is next to a major thoroughfare that the Denver
Police Department said in a post on the social platform X has
been temporarily closed in both directions.
Some residents of a nearby apartment building were advised to
leave because of the heat radiating off the fire, Murphy said.
The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency
Management said in a post on X that the fire has caused
“significant power outages." Officials have opened a temporary
overnight shelter at an event center in the nearby city of
Glendale.
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