RIVER RIDGE, La. (WGNO) — Jefferson Parish firefighters responded to a large apartment fire Friday night in River Ridge. They estimate 24 units were destroyed. The fire started around 6 p.m. and went to three alarms.
The apartment building is in the 500 block of Richard Avenue. Neighbors told WGNO News that they were unaware that anything was wrong until they heard the fire trucks arriving.
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“And then my dad went outside and he was like, ‘Guys we gotta go, the building is on fire.’ And I was like what? And we were standing around at first, and the fire fighters, they were like, ‘Y’all gotta move back,’” resident Brianna Williams told WGNO News. “Then things really got insane.”
Firefighters say the fire may have been started by a window unit air conditioner in one of the apartments at the back of the building…