Uniontown apartment fire forces evacuation
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Residents scrambled to evacuate the Gallatin Apartments
Wednesday evening as Uniontown firefighters were called battle a
fire in a seventh floor apartment of the at 41 East Main Street
building.
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Uniontown firefighters were called Wednesday evening to battle a fire in a seventh floor apartment of the Gallatin Apartments at 41 E. Main St.
No one was hurt in a fire that started on the seventh floor of a downtown apartment building early Wednesday evening, Uniontown police and fire officials said.
The fire appeared to start in the stove in Apartment 701 in the Gallatin Apartments, 41 E. Main St., when the tenant was not home around 4:45 p.m., police Sgt. Wayne Brown said.
Police officers evacuated the floor after they encountered heavy smoke upon arrival, Brown said.
After seeing smoke coming from under the apartment door, police forced the door open, Capt. David Rutter said. Police didn’t see anyone in the apartment, but firefighters searched the apartment when they arrived and confirmed that no one was in the unit, Brown said.
Fire department Capt. Mark Lovey said firefighters evacuated the entire eight-story building and were trying to determine the cause of the fire.
Brown said firefighters quickly extinguished the fire.
“They knocked it down pretty quickly” and most of the damage appeared to be limited to the apartment, he said. Police identified the tenant as 57-year-old June Laraway.