Fire At Vacant Minneapolis Home Sends 3 Firefighters To Hospital With Heat Exhaustion

By WCCO Staff, CBS Minnesota

August 22, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS – Three firefighters were hospitalized during the effort to extinguish a two-alarm fire Monday at a vacant Minneapolis home.

The Minneapolis Fire Department says crews were called to the residence on the 2700 block of Morgan Avenue North at about 4:30 p.m. The fire is believed to have started in the home's basement and spread to the main floor.

Crews got the fire under control within a couple of hours, but three firefighters were treated at HCMC for possible heat exhaustion. Their conditions haven't been released.

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