MIAMI (WSVN) - Emergency crews battled fierce flames after a fire broke out overnight at a high-rise in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood, leaving a man and his pets without a place to call home.
City of Miami Fire Rescue units responded to the scene of the blaze at the Bay Parc apartment building along the 1700 block of North Bayshore Drive, across from Margaret Pace Park, early Friday morning.
The man who lives in the ninth-floor unit said he was alerted to the fire when he woke up at around 1 a.m. to the sliding glass door exploding from the heat and the flames.
The victim said the fire started in his balcony. He made it out safely but injured his foot while exiting the unit.
Lucas Cardoso, another resident in the high-rise, described what he saw.
“I was in my balcony, and suddenly I was smelling smoke. I was chilling there, and when I saw outside, it was like fire from the balcony,” he said. “I don’t know if it was the kitchen, something like that.”
Cellphone video showed flames shooting out of the apartment where the fire broke out.
Crews were able to contain the flames to the balcony, but officials said the unit sustained smoke and water damage, and that has left the man and his two dogs displaced.
Paramedics checked out the victim’s foot injury, but he did not require treatment or transport.
Just after 5 a.m., 7News cameras captured the balcony charred and full of soot.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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