DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) – A fast-moving fire swept through a Dubuque apartment complex over the weekend, sending three people to the hospital with minor injuries and displacing residents across 20 units, emergency officials said.
Firefighters were dispatched to 280 W. 17th St. shortly before 6:20 p.m. Saturday for reports of a fire at a three-story, 30-unit residential building.
Upon arrival, crews encountered heavy fire and smoke coming from a first-floor unit. Firefighters forced entry into multiple sections of the complex to bring residents to safety, deploying ground ladders to pull two occupants directly from windows or balconies while guiding several others out of the burning building…