Two construction workers are missing after a massive five-alarm blaze broke out in Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday, according to officials.
“With the extensive structural damage, the search process can be lengthy,” the Charlotte Fire Department said in a statement on their official Twitter account. “We can not confirm a loss of life.”
Firefighters arrived within minutes to find heavy smoke conditions coming from the construction site. At 9:10 a.m., the fire became a two-alarm, and progressed to five-alarm by 9:56 a.m., Fire Chief Reginald Johnson said at a news conference Thursday afternoon. Fifteen workers were rescued, including a crane operator who was taken to a local hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries, Johnson said.
The fire department shared a video of the site around 2:52 p.m. Thursday showing that the fire had been contained and the structural damage it left behind.Developer Mill Creek Residential confirmed that the location of the fire was an apartment community under construction, and no residents were living there at the time.
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