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June 18, 2007

Update: Fire at Federal Hill apartment building / Photo

Journal photo / Kathy Borchers
The fire at the apartment building above was under control in less than an hour.

PROVIDENCE – A Federal Hill apartment fire has displaced at least 10 adults and five children and sent a baby girl to Hasbro Children’s Hospital for trouble breathing due to the fire.

Everyone was out of the three-story building at the intersection of Almy and Tell streets when fire crews arrived this afternoon, Fire Chief George S. Farrell said.

As people begin coming home from work, the fire department may learn of additional people displaced by the blaze, which was reported at 3:55 p.m.

Despite an initial report of children trapped on the third floor, all occupants were safely out of the building, according to James Taylor, chief of communications for the fire department.

The two-month-old girl was found at a store nearby and was taken to Hasbro because she was having trouble breathing, Taylor said. She was breathing on her own, Farrell said at the scene.

The fire was under control within about 20 minutes, Farrell said. By 4:30 p.m., fire crews were pouring water on the triple-decker, but no flames were visible.

The department sent eight engines, four ladder trucks and three rescue vehicles to the two-alarm blaze, Farrell said.

The fire is under investigation. Farrell said the cause is unknown at this point, and it’s not even clear yet where the fire started. Most of the damage was to the second and third floors.

-- projo.com staff writer Kate Bramson, with reports from Journal staff writer John Hill

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