Detroit apartment residents rescued after high-rise apartment fire

Terrifying moments today after a fire breaks out at a Detroit high-rise apartment building with people trapped inside. This is a big story we're following at this hour. Fox News' Ingrid Kelly is live outside the Pallister-Plaissance apartment building and joins us now with more on the dramatic rescue efforts. Ingrid. Absolutely. Good evening, Rup. As you can see right behind me, cleanup efforts are underway. We've got the easy drive truck over here. We've got the American Red Cross. But you know, the residents I spoke to say they're just happy to be alive. Take a look at this. Officials say the fire happened inside an apartment on the 9th floor. No one was home when that fire started and the fire was contained to that unit. But fire crews say other units received water and smoke damage as fire crews work to get everyone out safely. Took a little bit to find the actual apartment that was on fire. In the meantime, we were rescuing many tenants, smoke inhalation from 8 to 11, getting many calls through 911 that people were calling. Somebody was trapped in this apartment, that apartment. Back out here live, you know, no firefighters were injured, but a mother and her two kids, they were injured. They suffered smoke inhalation, but again, a number of residents had to be rescued. Take a listen. Smoke was coming in my unit so I thought, oh my God, so I went to the door to see what the hall was looking like, and it was so dark, oh my God, it was dark, and I couldn't breathe for a minute, so the firefighters came to the door, and I kept putting my hand out, I need some help getting out of here, so he said, oh, not a problem, I grabbed my cane, and he walked me to the stairs and took me downstairs. Back out here live now. This apartment building does not have sprinklers and it's not a code violation because the construction predates those codes. Now again, residents, some had to be displaced and I was told by a manager that those residents will be housed in apartments inside this building. Back to you, Rup. Back to you, Rup. Yeah, and Ingrid, at this point, no real cause is being determined about how this all started, huh? So right now I've been talking to investigators about that, there were some rumors and they shut those down. They say that it is going to take some time to actually do this investigation. You know, Basically it may take a couple of days, they don't know and right now they're not speculating. Again, they're gonna be thorough with this one. As they well should. We should. Ingrid Kelly for us live tonight. Ingrid, thank you.