MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. (WSVN) - A firefighter is recovering after he was injured while battling a fire at a Miami Gardens storage facility.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units were called to the Public Storage along Northwest 170th Street and Fourth Avenue just after 9:30 a.m., Tuesday.
A woman who works nearby described what she saw as more than a dozen firefighters arrived on the scene.
“Before you know it, we saw like one, two, three, four fire trucks,” a witness said. “It got to like 14, and we stopped counting.”
The fire was brought under control about an hour later.
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Officials said several people were inside the building when a storage unit inside burst into flames.
“Our units arrived. They did find smoke billowing out of one of the units. They quickly made entry into the unit,” Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Lt. Kirsten Miller said.
The fire spread to two adjacent units.
Firefighters used chain saws to cut into at least four different units to douse the flames.
The firefighter, who was not identified, sustained a minor injury and was transported to an area hospital for evaluation.
Investigators have yet to release the total damaged caused by the fire.
No other injuries were reported.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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