A fire at an apartment building in the Near Southside neighborhood Monday quickly grew to what the Fort Worth Fire Department called a “historic” blaze.
Investigators were still working to determine the cause and firefighters were monitoring the situation for flare-ups from hot spots that continued to smolder around midday Tuesday, according to fire department spokesperson Craig Trojacek.
Having opened in 2020, the Cooper is a new building with a sprinkler system and other modern fire protection equipment. So how did the blaze grow so quickly into a six-alarm fire requiring over 60 fire trucks and 170 firefighters?
Roof design made it more difficult for firefighters to put out the blaze
Speaking to reporters outside the building on Tuesday, Trojacek said that the design of the building’s roof hindered efforts to extinguish the fire…