Three-alarm fire put out Three-alarm fire put out (February 20, 2004)

Residents evacuated from apartment building
It took firefighters about an hour and a half to control a three-alarm blaze at a Mountain View apartment complex Sunday morning, according to a fire spokesman.

The fire, which was reported at 7:10 a.m., appears to have started on the ground floor of a three-story building at 707 Continental Circle, said Mountain View fire spokesman Lynn Brown.

Flames then spread to the second floor and into the space between the second and third floors, Brown said.

After 35 residents were evacuated from the building, firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze, Brown said.

"It looks like it was just some problem with some electrical thing," said Brown on Tuesday. The fire and water damage is estimated to be several hundred thousand dollars.

Brown said the fire rendered three apartments uninhabitable, but that residents of other units in the building should soon be able to return home.

Several residents were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation, but no other injuries were reported, Brown said.

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