Fire photographer Ian Kushnir shared photos of firefighters working at a fire Tuesday in a senior apartment complex in Southgate, Michigan.
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Firefighters were dispatched to a reported fire on a second-floor balcony. Crews arrived to smoke showing with fire spreading in the attic. Fire and police departments from multiple downriver agencies worked to evacuate the building.
This was a multiple-alarm fire that heavily damaged the structure at Meadows of Southgate, with Southgate, Allen Park, Taylor, Wyandotte, Riverview, Brownstown, Ecorse, and Lincoln Park fire departments responding.
See more photos from the fire here.