Fire Causes Evacuations

Move into the mayo civic center.

3 major fires to tell you about... all taking place within a nearly 24 hours... across parts of southern minnesota and north iowa.

First this afternoon ?

"* we're following a developing story out of albert lea.... after a massive warehouse became engulfed in flames last night.

This warehouse is west of downtown albert lea on west main street.

Near "streater's."

Here you can see heavy smoke... kimt news three is told the fire was burning so hot, that sides of nearby homes melted right off.

More than a dozen homes had to be evacuated and the fire caused 300?

"*thousand dollars in damae an emergency shelter is set up at the united methodist church as the red cross.

It's unknown what caused the blaze but smoke blanketed the community as the massive the fire displaced renters and homeowners... people in 13 different residences were evacuated.

Kimt news 3's jeremy wall caught up with some of the folks today.

Teresa jensen was forced to evacuate her albert lea home during last night's raging warehouse fire.

It was scary.

Sparks flying everywhere.

We had to dodge the flames michael rollingore, also had to evacuate when flames threatened his residence.

He ended up in a motel.

It was a little bit shocking.

Yep i'm a dsiabled person but i had my medications with me and i handled it safely melody schmidt got a terrifying call during the inferno .

I was at work when i heard and then, i came off work and my boyfriend said he was waiting in the car down the street and then he couldn't get out because there was so many cars and i couldn't down near here after work so i had to spend the night with my daughter at her place schmidtt is thankful her home survived, although it did endure some damage to the front.

The chief tells me there were no known fatalities however, there were a few minor injuries.

If you plan to take college st west to adams ave, the road will be blocked off until sometime tommorow.