A late-night fire at a St. Paul apartment complex turned into a much bigger problem early Sunday morning, leaving more than a thousand residents temporarily displaced.
Firefighters Return to St. Paul Apartments
According to the St. Paul Fire Department, crews were called to the Skyline Tower around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday to extinguish a small fire. The blaze was put out quickly, but not long after, firefighters were called back when a major electrical failure caused sprinklers to go off on multiple floors.
The Star Tribune reports that Skyline Tower, Minnesota’s largest subsidized housing complex with 500 units, lost power throughout the entire 24-story building. The outage knocked out elevators, fire…..