Emma Epperly.
发言人评论报》,斯波坎,洗。
（MCT）
4月7日 - 斯波坎市中心高层公寓大楼火灾留下了一个严重伤害的男子，并强迫了几十名老人和残疾人居民到位。
The fire started in a ninth-floor apartment and brought more than 70 firefighters to the Park Tower apartments at 217 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. at around 1 p.m. Thursday, said Spokane Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer.
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Carol Hart听到了公寓内的小火灾报警，毗邻她的单位。她在走廊里困住了她的头，看到它充满了烟雾。
“我在所有邻居的门上砸了，据说现在去吧，”哈特说。“没有人回应，我说，'嘿，我要去。这就是我可以为你做的，离开这里。“
Hart rushed back to her apartment to grab her tiny white dog, Cowboy, before heading down the nine flights of stairs to evacuate the building.
The tower is a 20-story concrete building across the street from the Spokane Convention Center. It has 185 units for residents over 62 or those who have disabilities. The building is subsidized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development .
船员冲了九个飞行楼梯，照顾沉重的软管线，以便陷入困境的居民。
Schaeffer说，消防员将他从窗外带出窗户，然后在梯子卡车篮中击败地面。
Schaeffer说，他醒了但受到严重的伤害。
他说，消防员在他们的手和膝盖上爬行，寻找相邻的公寓。唯一受到火灾的直接造成的受害者是初始公寓的居民。
Schaeffer说，火上方的人在火上方获得大量的烟雾，使其预先存在的条件复杂化。一些居民正在治疗吸入，痛苦和焦虑。
Schaeffer表示，启动了斯波坎县灾害计划，将患者分类为地区医院，防止任何一个急诊室都过载。最终，仅运输三名居民以进行额外护理。
该部门表示，其他乘客得到了消防员的帮助。
无法自行撤离的居民被要求避难到位。消防员将在公寓塔上工作，直到每个楼层的所有单位都检查，以确保居民安全。火灾的原因仍在调查中。
八楼居民肯普拉克说，他听到火灾报警下车，以为这是一个钻，直到他在走廊里冒烟。
他赶紧回到他的公寓里，并在折叠楼梯到安全之前，把他的猫克劳迪娅和乌龟进入他们的运营商。
Tim Ruckhaber, who said he is “totally blind,” has lived in the tower for more than a decade and was able to evacuate.
“I was completely calm and I took the stairs,” he said.
Living in the building for such a long time, Ruckhaber was able to navigate the stairs himself until reaching the ground floor, where an aide helped him outside.
“我很幸运，”他安全地撤离了。
Employees from nearby Main Market rushed drinking water to the scene to aid displaced residents, who gathered in a nearby parking lot.
哈特表示，她对大楼的管理公司提出了关于吸烟的居民的担忧。
“这可能是火灾来自的地方，”她说。
HART说，居民拒绝停止吸烟，使建筑不安全。
“我完全不安全，牛仔也不是安全的，”哈特说，她抚摸着她的小狗。
The fire department spends quite a bit of time at the tower tending to residents’ medical needs, Schaeffer said.
“我们爱上了这里的人，”他说。
Schaeffer is concerned the large building doesn’t have sprinklers, leaving the building and its residents vulnerable. The apartments heat up like an oven during a fire, increasing harm to residents, he added.
It’s difficult for firefighters to access the upper floors of the building in a fire, purely due to the number of stairs crews must climb while carrying hoses, breathing apparatuses and other gear.
“这是一个高层建筑，不受灭火系统的保护，”Schaeffer说。“后果是非常可预测的。”
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