Lauderhill apartment fire looks like arson, fire officials say

A Lauderhill apartment fire that caused heavy damage to one unit and water damage to neighboring apartments may have been a case of arson, according to fire investigators.

Lauderhill Fire Rescue was called to the second floor of the Parkwest Apartments on the 1900 block of Northwest 46th Avenue about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Capt. Jerry Gonzalez.

“Police were at that location a few hours earlier for a domestic [dispute] call,” he said. “We received reports of 911 calls coming from neighbors seeing heavy black smoke coming from this apartment.”

Crews arrived to find heavy flames and smoke billowing out the front door and windows. They extinguished the fire within 20 minutes, he said.

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