58 displaced in Chesapeake apartment fire

by 13News Now

WVEC.com

Posted on July 9, 2014 at 5:20 AM

Updated today at 5:20 PM

CHESAPEAKE -- A kitchen fire in the Heron's Land Apartments left 58 people displaced Tuesday night.

Firefighters responded to the call in the 2100 block of South Military Highway around 10:15 p.m., according to Captain Scott Saunders with the Chesapeake Fire Department.

The fire had been extinguished by the building's fire sprinkler system before crews arrived on scene, but caused water damage to apartments on the first and second floors. As a result, electrical power had be shut off.

One occupant of the building suffered smoke inhalation, but refused to be transported, Saunders said. Nobody else was injured.

Heron's Land Apartments is part of the Virginia Supportive Housing program and residents are former homeless single adults. Officials say 58 of the 60 units were damaged.

Esther Robert is the director at Heron's Landing Apartments and all other Virginia Supportive Housing developments in Hampton Roads.

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