Firefighters rescued two residents and a dog from a burning apartment building in West Dallas on Wednesday after heavy smoke poured from a first-floor unit.
Dallas Fire-Rescue responded at 10:52 a.m. to the complex in the 2400 block of Bahama Drive. Crews arrived to find black smoke billowing from one apartment, with reports that people remained inside.
A search team located a woman who had been sleeping in her unit and was unaware of the dangerous smoke filling her apartment. Firefighters woke her and led her to safety. Another resident was pulled from a balcony as smoke filled that apartment.
The occupant of the apartment where the fire started escaped on their own before crews arrived.
Another resident who also self-evacuated was transported to a hospital for smoke exposure.
The blaze was confined to the single unit, but thick smoke damaged the building’s seven other apartments, displacing residents. Management said it had vacant units available for those affected.
The cause of the fire remains undetermined.