The Brief
- An early morning fire at a Fort Worth apartment complex on Thursday impacted four units, leaving 11 adults and two children without a home.
- Firefighters shifted to a defensive strategy after the three-story building became too unstable to continue battling the flames from inside.
- Investigators believe the fire started on an upper floor, but the exact point of origin and the cause of the blaze remain under investigation.
FORT WORTH, Texas – More than a dozen people were forced out of their homes on Thursday morning because of a fire at an apartment complex in Fort Worth.
What we know:
The fire started just before 7 a.m. off Remington Drive, just east of Interstate 30 and Highway 183.
A nearby Texas Department of Transportation camera caught the first look at the flames. An hour later, the fire was still smoldering.
“We had to go from an offensive tactical standpoint to a defensive, meaning it got to the point where the buildings were too unsafe for us to be inside and try to extinguish the fire,” said Fort Worth Fire Department Spokesman Craig Trojecek.…