San Diego senior home evacuated after fire, Red Cross assists 30 residents
A fire broke out in a fifth floor apartment at the Potiker Family Senior Rescue in downtown San Diego Saturday afternoon, displacing 30 residents. One person was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- Dozens of residents at a senior living facility in downtown San Diego are displaced after a fire broke out in a fifth floor apartment Saturday afternoon.
Firefighters with the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department, along with San Diego Police officers, responded at 2:15 p.m. Saturday to calls for a fire at Potiker Family Senior Residence, a low-income senior living facility in the 500 block of 14th Street in San Diego's East Village.
The fire-rescue department said one person was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation after a mattress caught on fire from "smoking materials" in a fifth floor high-rise apartment unit, and that a few other patients were being evaluated.
The Red Cross was called in and is assisting 30 residents that were displaced by the fire due to water damage from firefighting efforts. Residents that weren't impacted were allowed to return to their homes Saturday evening.
A total of 92 personnel were assigned to the fire, including 13 fire engines. The cities of National City and Coronado assisted at the scene.
A fire investigator was called in as the investigation remains ongoing.
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