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1 person critical, dozens displaced following fire at Richmond Heights apartment complex

The third floor has been deemed "uninhabitable."

At least eight families have been displaced following a fire at a Richmond Heights apartment complex Friday.

Officials say the fire began in a hallway and destroyed the entire third floor of the Loganberry Ridge Apartments. That floor has been deemed "uninhabitable," but residents on the first, second, and fourth floors have been allowed back inside.

Several people had to be rescued from the complex. One person is currently in critical condition, while five others received minor injuries.

"It's a bad sight," Nicholas Patton, who lives on the third floor where the fire started, told us. "It's very, very disturbing."

Patton says he never experienced anything like it in his life.

"When you smelled that smell, that you cant get out, you cant breathe in, you knew it was a real situation."

He says he was sleep when he heard the fire alarm go off around 4:15 in the afternoon. Patton went and checked it out, and said he couldn't believe what he saw.

"The whole side was engulfed in smoke," he said.

Andrea Crosby, a mother of two, saw the fire as well. She got her family out and told people to evacuate the building. Crosby describes the chaotic scene as people raced to safety.

"The whole hallway was full of smoke," she said. "People were running out, coughing, etc."

While most people rushed to safety, many were left behind, trapped by the overwhelming smoke and flames. Multiple fire departments responded, rescuing people from their third floor windows and balconies.

This is the second fire in roughly two months at Loganberry. Another blaze in July also displaced several people.

The incident remains under investigation.

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