Crews battle 5-alarm blaze in Whitman

Crews battled a five-alarm fire Wednesday night in Whitman.

Firefighters responding to an apartment complex on Commercial Street were met by heavy flames coming from a building that houses six apartments.

“I started to smell something, and I heard a pop, a pop, a pop,” a woman who lived in one of the apartments said.

Another said, “One window just orange. The fire department started showing up, and the whole house ignited.”

There were no reported injuries.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

No additional information was immediately available.

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