A large fire tore through an apartment building in Chesapeake’s Great Bridge neighborhood Friday afternoon, forcing evacuations and leaving more than a dozen residents without a home.
Emergency dispatchers received multiple 911 calls around 1:17 p.m. reporting a fire at the Great Bridge Apartments, officials said. Firefighters arrived three minutes later to find heavy smoke and flames coming from a two-story building.
Crews, alongside Chesapeake Police officers, began door-to-door evacuations as additional firefighters deployed multiple hoselines to attack the blaze…