Family Displaced By Paradise Hills Apartment Fire

SAN DIEGO, CA — A fire tore through a Paradise Hills apartment Thursday, displacing a family of four and leaving one resident with superficial injuries.

The blaze erupted shortly after 10 a.m. Thursday in a second-floor unit at a residential complex in the 6800 block of Potomac Street, just south of Paradise Valley Road and west of Woodman Street, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.

It took crews about 15 minutes to gain control of the flames, SDFRD Capt. Jason Shanley said.

One resident, an adult, was treated for minor injuries, according to the fire department. The American Red Cross was called in to help that person and three children arrange for emergency shelter.

The cause of the fire remained under investigation in the early afternoon, Shanley said.

— City News Service