TAYLORSVILLE — There was a lot of smoke but not a lot of fire was in the air at a condominium complex here Monday.
Smoke was reported at the Mt. View Condominiums, 4515 S. 1175 West, just before 9 a.m. The first arriving fire crews saw smoke coming from one of units and immediately called for a second alarm as a precaution, said Unified Fire Authority Capt. Clint Mecham.
But firefighters found just a small fire in a wall, quickly put the blaze out and canceled the second alarm.
Mecham called it a "relatively small fire" and noted that the biggest challenge was stringing together enough hose from the fire hydrants to the condo. He said, however, there was a "huge potential" for the situation to have turned out much worse than it did.
The cause of the fire was still being investigated Monday.
Greg Radcliffe and his wife, Tiffany, wait with their kids Paxton and Paisley as firefighters work to clear them to return to their condominium at Mt. View Condominiums in Taylorsville Monday, March 25, 2013. Unified firefighters responded to a small fire in one of the units.
Greg Radcliffe and his wife, Tiffany, wait with their kids Paxton and Paisley as firefighters work to clear them to return to their condominium at Mt. View Condominiums in Taylorsville Monday, March 25, 2013. Unified firefighters responded to a small fire in one of the units
We are all ok, it was our neighbors condo that was on fire. We were all asleep including my neighbor and his g/f. he had actually been up all night throwing up sick, so he had called into work sick, or else he would normally have been gone to work already. We all got woken up by his fire alarms going off, then when he came out of his condo we just saw black smoke coming out. We never saw flames just allot of smoke. The fire was inside a wall, it was started by something electrical. they were able to contain all the fire to his unit, THANK GOD. all the pictures above are from the local news station. Greg interviewed with a couple different news stations, but i never did. we are home now, and surprisingly our condo doesn't smell that bad from the smoke. but apparently the way this new year has started is not good so far, i'm kinda walking on egg shells here thinking NOW what is going to happen to us.
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