Phoenix: Fire crew members were battling a massive fire outburst at a construction site near downtown Phoenix leaving about 1,800 customers in that area without power.
The Phoenix Fire Department, as per reports, says,”The four-story apartment complex was on fire late this Sunday during construction.” The cause of the fire was not known immediately, it was unclear whether anyone was injured.
Videos and photographs have gone viral on the internet, the pictures were also shared by the Fire Department, in the video you can clearly see a massive blaze on the western edge of the Arizona City’s Warehouse District, which is less than a mile south of the Sandra Day O’Connor U.S Courthouse.
Massive construction site fire near downtown Phoenix right now tune into @abc15 pic.twitter.com/SEbki7IGxe
— Adam Waltz (@Adam_Waltz) June 8, 2020
An outage map clearly shows, as per reports, nearly 1,800 people without power in that area, but it isn’t clear it is connected.
Steve Lopez is the Editorial Page Editor for News Raise. He covers Health. He has won more than a dozen national journalism awards for his reporting and column writing at seven newspapers and four news magazines.
