Fire Strikes E. Nields Apartment Complex
No one was injured in the blaze.
Two apartments were destroyed but no one was injured after a fire tore through an apartment complex on the 500 block of E. Nields Street Friday morning. While the university doesn’t own the building, its residents are all West Chester students. The fire started sometime before 11 a.m., and originated in a unit on the complex’s second floor before spreading to the apartment directly above it. Fire personnel from Fame Fire Co. and First West Chester Fire Co. are still investigating its cause. Earl Widergren, the building’s owner and landlord, said that while the two apartments were completely destroyed and will have to be rebuilt, the rest of his complex is fine. “Kids are back in them already,” he said of the surrounding apartments. …
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