LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Two people were killed in an early morning fire that broke out at an apartment in Louisville's Southside neighborhood.
Heavy flames filled the first floor of the three-story apartment complex in the 200 block of Douglas Park, not far from Southside Drive, when crews with the Louisville Division of Fire responded to the blaze around 12:30 a.m. Sunday. Firefighters found two people dead on the first floor, according to Lt. Col. Jim Frederick.
"Me and my friend was busting out the windows just trying to get people out," said Patrick Britt, who lives just about 200 feet from where the fire was. "We was screaming and hollering but by the time we got there there was nothing we could do, it was too late."
Frederick identified one of the victims as an adult and the other as a child.
"The people from the upper levels they were basically just tossing their kids down to the ground level just to get them out of the apartments before the rest of them caught on fire," Britt said.
One firefighter was taken to the hospital with an ankle injury.
The first floor of the complex is considered a total loss, while the second and third floor received substantial damage, Frederick said. The Kentuckiana Red Cross is providing assistance to occupants who were displaced by the fire.
Arson investigators will now try to determine the cause of the fire.
The coroner's office has not identified the two people who died.
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