STOCKTON — Four people were hospitalized and more than a dozen people were displaced after a Stockton apartment caught fire, officials said Thursday.
The Stockton Fire Department said firefighters responded just before 4:30 a.m. at the Village North Apartments along West Benjamin Holt Drive.
A second-story unit was heavily involved in flames when first responders arrived.
Among the four injured was a child. The fire department said all four suffered significant burn injuries. A cat died in the fire.
Though the flames were contained to one unit, several other units sustained water and smoke damage. Red Cross was assisting 15 people who were displaced.
One of those who were displaced was Lincoln Sinclair.
“We’re going to come back in the morning and see what we can salvage and go from there,” he said.
Sinclair is a truck driver and was out on delivery when he got the call from his family.
“I dropped everything, of course,” he said. “It’s family, and I got here.”