MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Children were among the injured during a fire on Tuesday morning in northwestern Miami-Dade County.
According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, two children and an adult suffered smoke inhalation during a house fire in Brownsville, near Allapattah.
A man who is a neighbor said in Spanish that the fire had affected a family that lived in a unit at a one-story gray house at Northwest 41 Street, near 23 Court.
Fire rescue personnel took the three injured to a nearby hospital. An investigator with MDFR questioned a man who was wearing a red T-shirt.
The county’s active calls record showed fire rescue personnel responded shortly after 8:45 a.m., and there were nine units at work at 9:35 a.m. Deputies and a Red Cross team were also at the home at about 10:35 a.m.
This is a developing story. Local 10 News Photojournalist Lani Yasuk-Carrier, Assignment Desk Editor Mercedes Cevallos, and Senior Assignment Desk Editor Kelly Davis contributed to this report.
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