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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 Spokane's 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 they're in great danger. the apartment they tell me is quite large. there's 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 fire coming out of the windows is a considerable job by our members. >> any -- [ indiscernible ] >...

>> 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 they're in great danger. the apartment they tell me is quite large. there's 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 fire coming out of the windows is a considerable job by our members. >> any -- [ indiscernible ] >...

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 products, that's going to light off and continue until there's no more fire load. >> fireballs explo...