Firefighters responded Saturday to an apartment fire on Holly Avenue in northeast Durango.
The blaze was reported shortly after 7 p.m. at the Sunbird Condos in the 2900 block of Holly Avenue. It was largely contained to the exterior of a unit, according to a post on Durango Fire Protection District’s Facebook post. Crews prevented it from spreading to other units.
“Because of the quick, coordinated efforts on scene, the fire was largely contained with minimal extension into the living space,” the post said.
Photos showed one side of the exterior engulfed in flames.
Kim Kraska, a neighbor, was the second person to call 911.
“I looked out, and it was engulfed in flames,” Kraska said. “I just panicked.”
Monica Young was the only person inside the building when her storage shed suddenly caught fire.
“I noticed all this brown kept going past my door,” she said, “I thought, ‘Wow, the wind has really picked up. Where is all that dust coming from?’”
After a few minutes, Young got up to look outside.
“When I walked to the door, there were these two young ladies running up the parking lot,” she said. “They were screaming, ‘Your house is on fire! Your house is on fire!’ I stepped out of the house and turned to my left and looked. Sure enough, there were flames, 15 feet up in the air.”
The fire department did not provide additional details as of Tuesday afternoon.
sedmondson@durangoherald.com
