Fire at Hurst apartment complex

By Martha Deller, Mitch Mitchell and Jessamy Brown in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The Tarrant County Arson Task Force is investigating the cause of a fire at a Hurst apartment complex Thursday morning that sent two people to a hospital and displaced 12 residents, officials said. Four fire departments responded to a 6:37 a.m. call from the Remington Oaks complex, 1605 Campus Drive, near Tarrant County College Northeast Campus.

The blaze started in an upstairs apartment and raced through a shared attic, damaging two units, said Lt. Kirk Caldwell, a Hurst Fire Department spokesman. Eight apartments in the 16-unit complex had smoke damage, and two sustained significant water damage, Caldwell said.

A Hurst police officer was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation but did not require additional attention, authorities said.

The residents who went to a hospital had inhaled smoke, and one had a burned foot and the other a cut hand, Caldwell said. Their conditions could not be learned late Thursday, but both were expected to fully recover, a firefighter said.

The complex requires residents to carry rental insurance, so the displaced families were expected to recover quickly, according to tenants.