KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – A fire that started Sunday morning on the ninth floor of an eleven-floor apartment building at Nowlin Hall has left nearly 150 residents, many of them seniors and people with disabilities, displaced after water from the sprinkler system caused widespread damage and knocked out power to the building.
Multiple residents said the fire began in a woman’s apartment while she was at church. The flames were quickly put out, but the building’s sprinkler system triggered a cascade of water that poured down through 9 floors of the high-rise.
Deborah “Hollywood” Carter has lived in the building for four years…