By: Kaylee Harter | Denver7
“[W]e understand the immense challenges this fire has created for residents and businesses,” the ATF special agent in charge said.
DENVER – Federal agents have been deployed to help investigate the massive fire that broke out at an under-construction apartment complex Friday, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced Tuesday.
The fire near S. Leetsdale Drive and S. Forest Street smoldered for several days and stretched an entire city block, prompting evacuations and street closures, and injuring one firefighter, according to the ATF release. More than 150 firefighters worked to control the blaze, Denver7 reported, and roughly 18 million gallons of water were used to put out the fire, according to Denver Fire Division Chief Robert Murphy.
“I don’t think I’ve ever been at a fire where we flowed so much water,” he said at Tuesday press conference.
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