The 18-unit apartment complex at 8th and Adams in December.
Dallas Fire Rescue put out a fire Monday night at a vacant apartment building at the corner of 8th and Adams, where the City of Dallas recently halted demolition for 45 days.
Firefighters arrived just after 11 p.m., after receiving multiple 911 calls, to find smoke coming from the building’s second floor.
“There were a total of 18 apartments in the fenced off building, but the quick actions of firefighters limited the damage to the apartment of origin, four units around it and the attic space above them,” DFR spokesman Jason Evans stated.
Investigators determined that someone started the fire after trespassing onto the property, and there were no witnesses.
Here it is in DFR’s words:
Investigators determined the fire was incendiary in nature; resulting from unknown homeless individuals gaining illegal access to the property and starting it with an unknown heat source.
Unfortunately, there were no witnesses to this fire.
No one was injured, and the fire was extinguished within 20 minutes.
The apartments are part of the Lennar Multifamily Corp.’s property, which also includes most of the 500 block of 8th Street in Bishop Arts. The company plans to knock down the quaint multifamily buildings to build a four-story apartment complex, but those plans triggered the neighborhood’s demolition-delay ordinance, which comes with a 45-day waiting period before demolition can occur.
8th and Adams December 2021
