Friday apartment fire appeared to begin in bedroom

Corbin firefighters spent approximately three hours Friday night battling an apartment fire near the Trademart shopping center.

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Battalion Chief Jack Partin said firefighters were paged to Oak Place Village Apartments at approximately 5 p.m.

“It was called in as a structure fire. The caller didn’t know if anyone was inside or not,” Partin said.

When firefighters arrived on the scene, Partin said there was heavy fire coming out of the back windows on the second floor.

“We made an aggressive interior attack,” Partin said noting firefighters had the flames knocked down within approximately 10 minutes.

Firefighters spent more than one-and-a-half hours performing salvage and overhaul to ensure the fire was extinguished.

Partin said the fire appeared to start in the back bedroom on the second floor, though there is nothing to indicate arson.

“We contained the fire to the apartment of origin,” Partin said noting that there is minor smoke damage to the neighboring apartment.

Off-duty personnel were called in to assist.

Partin said approximately 15 firefighters were at the scene.