Aug 25, 2026
About four dozen people are without a home Tuesday after a massive 3-alarm fire broke out at a Fort Worth apartment complex before dawn, injuring five people, including a firefighter. According to the Fort Worth Fire Department, firefighters were called to a fire at an apartment complex on the 6 700 block of Calmont Avenue at about 6 a.m. One firefighter was injured while working to put out the blaze, officials said. Two people were treated at the scene of the fire, and two more were taken to the hospital for treatment. Their conditions are not known. An evacuation center has been set up at the R.D. Evans Community Center at 3242 Lackland Road. TRE Metro brought in buses to help transport families to that center. “It gives these residents a chance to get out of the smoke, get out of the heat, kind of get their bearings about them. As you can imagine, being woken up in the middle of the night and you potentially lost everything. Your emotions are high. Your adrenaline’s going. So this is kind of a safe place for those individuals to go, work with the Red Cross, work with property managers that are going to be here on scene and figure out the next steps. Are there units available for them to move into? Where do I get my next meal? So all that different kind of stuff, those answers, will be at that location,” Fort Worth Public Information Officer Craig Trojacek said. As residents now try to process what’s happened, many told NBC 5 they are focusing on what matters most. “Really, there’s no words for it. It’s a lot of things lost in the fire. A lot of things gotta be replaced. Long as we got out OK, everything is alright,” said resident David Harden, who escaped with his wife and children. “Everything can replaced, in time. Everything else is materialistic. Things can be put back together.” The American Red Cross Greater North Texas Region is providing food, water, toiletries, pet supplies, and teddy bears for kids to up to 50 residents displaced by the fire. An earlier estimate of 100 displaced people was based on a preliminary calculation of affected apartments. A hot lunch is also being provided to residents, as volunteers figure out where families can go. The Red Cross said it is still working with the city to determine where that will be. Check back and refresh this page for the latest updates. This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser. ...read more read less
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