Dozens of Salt Lake City fire crews descended on a massive blaze at an apparently unoccupied, under-construction building in Sugar House late Tuesday.
As of about 3 a.m., SLCFD crews were still working to contain the fire, fighting ongoing flames from the perimeter of the property, Stowe said.
That’s because portions of the building had begun internally collapsing, Stowe said. The ongoing threat of total collapse meant no firefighters had been dispatched inside the building as of early Wednesday, instead operating in “defensive mode” from the exterior.As a precaution, Salt Lake City fire crews began evacuating hundreds of people from adjacent residential buildings at about midnight as the “high-danger” fire continued to burn, Stowe said.
By about 1 a.m., about 300 neighboring residents had been directed outside, including Amanda Lee, an assistant professor of printmaking at Utah State University. The 45-year-old lives in an apartment immediately south of the blaze and safely evacuated with her cat and one bag in hand, she said.: Forest Dale Golf Course, located at 2375 South 900 East.
Lee happened to be awake when the fire started, she told The Salt Lake Tribune. Her first sign of the soon-to-balloon blaze: Fire truck sirens.on Twitter. At the time, from the vantage point of her neighboring apartment, smoke could be seen pouring out from the opposing, open-frame structure — but no flames. A fire department vehicle could be seen stationed on the ground below.
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