ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- Over 40 firefighters from around Jacksonville responded to a morning fire that tore through an Orange Park apartment complex Saturday.
Around 40 people have been displaced due to smoke damage. The fire is believed to have damaged at least 13 apartments within Building 1 in the complex, as well as breezeways for the apartments.
Deonta Armstrong was asleep in an upstairs apartment where he was staying with his pregnant wife, daughter, his mother in-law and three of his nephews. One of his nephews warned him of the fire.
"All I know is getting up real fast, getting everyone out of the building, we was banging on doors. The back wall, our neighbors was engulfed in flames. We got everybody out in the nick of time, thank God. Nobody died, all the pets, everybody got out," Armstrong said.
Clay County Fire Department Chief Lorin Mock said the crews responded around 8:50 a.m to a reported fire at the Vista Grande Apartments, formerly known as Mariner's Wharf Apartments, just off Wells Road.
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