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SPOKANE, Wash. - One person has been transported to a local hospital for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out inside an apartment complex on Spokanes South Hill.

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Fire Department (SFD) says one person was injured in an apartment fire on the South Hill Friday night.

>> how difficult is it to fight a fire that high up? >> first of all, the units have to get there. they have to hook up to a system with their hose, takes a little longer. the fire of course, the building is -- it contains the heat, it contains the smoke. it was extremely hot in the apartment units, pushing in theyre in great danger. the apartment they tell me is quite large. theres quite a lot of furniture and quite a lot of fire load. as you can see from the videos, you can tell the volume of ...

>> how difficult is it to fight a fire that high up? >> first of all, the units have to get there. they have to hook up to a system with their hose, takes a little longer. the fire of course, the building is -- it contains the heat, it contains the smoke. it was extremely hot in the apartment units, pushing in theyre in great danger. the apartment they tell me is quite large. theres quite a lot of furniture and quite a lot of fire load. as you can see from the videos, you can tell the volume of ...

A chemical fire turns day into night. and sends a community searching for cover. >> quite frankly, it looked like we had hell on earth down there. >> october 4th, 2011. a fire breaks out 30 miles south of dallas at the magnablend chemical plant in waxahachie, texas. the blaze ignites thousands of gallons of liquid chemicals and within minutes transforms acres of buildings into a sea of flames. >> once it got to the products, typically the mineral oil and the hydrocarbon based products petroleum ...

Up to 48 hours. it could take us days to identify people based on the level of remains that we have. >> hold on one moment please. go ahead, maam. [ inaudible ] >> im not getting into all that. >> go ahead, maam. >> what was on the ground floor -- >> i dont know. >> they want to know what was on the ground floor? too difficult to describe or can you describe? >> this was an artist collective so the whole building was divided up into areas basically work areas for artists. so it ranged from peopl...

Lot of fire load up there, too. i dont know how it was configured, but the ground floor, when we did our interior attack, we went in about 20 yards with hand lines trying -- we knew people were in there and trying to get them out, and it was -- a labyrinth. >> and whether or not [ inaudible ] pyrotechnics? >> not -- >> point of clarity on the code situation. permitted as a warehouse only, not 3er789ed as residences, no permit taken for a party. would any sort of work, artist work, be allowed in ...

Around the base and the front of the hotel. what do you think that tells us about the fire in terms of how fast it spread, whether the suppressing system, the fire suppressing system was operable or not? >> yeah, well, thats a big question. you always want to find out if the sprinklers were working. >> right. >> but this fire looks kind of deep into the rooms. the chief was talking earlier about the fire load on balconies. people think because a building is built out of steel and glass and concr...

A chemical fire turns day into night. >> oh! and sends a community searching for cover. >> quite frankly, it looked like we had hell on earth down there. >> october 4, 2011. a fire breaks out 30 miles south of dallas at the magnablend chemical plant in waxahachie, texas. the blaze ignites thousands of gallons of liquid chemicals and within minutes transforms acres of buildings into a sea of flames. >> once it got to the products, typically the mineral oil and the hydrocarbon based products petro...

A chemical fire turns day into night. and sends a community searching for cover. >> quite frankly, it looked like we had hell on earth down there. >> october 4th, 2011. a fire breaks out 30 miles south of dallas at the magnablend chemical plant in waxahachie, texas. the blaze ignites thousands of gallons of liquid chemicals and within minutes transforms acres of buildings into a sea of flames. >> once it got to the products, typically the mineral oil and the hydrocarbon based products petroleum ...