Curtis Johnson / The Herald-Dispatch Debris lies and smoke rises early Friday from an apartment building destroyed by fire at the intersection of 7th Avenue and 8th Street near downtown Huntington.

Curtis Johnson / The Herald-Dispatch Debris lies and smoke rises early Friday from an apartment building destroyed by fire at the intersection of 7th Avenue and 8th Street near downtown Huntington.

Curtis Johnson / The Herald-Dispatch Debris lies and smoke rises early Friday from an apartment building destroyed by fire at the intersection of 7th Avenue and 8th Street near downtown Huntington.

Curtis Johnson / The Herald-Dispatch Debris lies and smoke rises early Friday from an apartment building destroyed by fire at the intersection of 7th Avenue and 8th Street near downtown Huntington.

Curtis Johnson / The Herald-Dispatch Debris lies and smoke rises early Friday from an apartment building destroyed by fire at the intersection of 7th Avenue and 8th Street near downtown Huntington.

Curtis Johnson / The Herald-Dispatch Debris lies and smoke rises early Friday from an apartment building destroyed by fire at the intersection of 7th Avenue and 8th Street near downtown Huntington.

Mar. 27, 2015 @ 11:01 PM

HUNTINGTON A fire destroyed a three-story apartment building early Friday, damaged another next door and closed a major thoroughfare into downtown Huntington.

Its flames and a partial collapse left five people looking for a new home, while a first-floor alterations company salvaged the inventory it could and pulled files as customers wondered about dresses inside the collapse zone.

Dispatchers learned of the fire at 3:44 a.m., but the call came too late for firefighters tasked with saving a building located just seconds from the city's main fire station.

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Fire destroys apartment building downtown

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