Fire burns through vacant apartment complex – Video

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26-01-2012 14:20 albuquerque firefighters have been working on the fire at the apartment complex for about 7 hours now. we've learned the vacant complex has a troubled history. our heather mills was out there all morning long... and joins us live from atrisco and iliff. as you can see -- the fire is now out.. but crews are still monitoring the building for hot spots. minute thumbnail 12:00 pm i just got an update from afd... they tell me power crews are restoring power to the 40 homes that were affected. "It's a heartbreaking loss, to say the least." FLAMES WERE shooting from the roof of this apartment complex -- and within minutes, two of the four building were on fire. as the flames spread.. chuck sheldon watched in DISAPPOINTMENT. "We just completed the construction on building one that's burned down, and building two." FORMERLY "western palisades" this complex has had many problems in the past.. the city even red-tagged it two years ago. sheldon bought the property.. and was working with the city on re-construction. he says they were planning to re-open in may. "You know you take something out of jist, mis-treated, and create something that people can really enjoy." "We've changed the name to the Phoenix, and maybe rightly so, since now it will come out of the ashes." SHELDON says he can't imagine what would have minute thumbnail 12:01 pm sparked this fire... that the building was up-to-code.. and they had just completed inspections for the re-wiring. and.. he says the site is secure ...

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