Flames shoot out from a large apartment building at 378 Water St. in Skowhegan on Thursday. Several area departments fought the fire. Sixteen tenants were left homeless but several cats were rescued.
Firefighters prepare to enter the second floor of a burning apartment building at 378 Water St. in Skowhegan on Thursday.
Flames shoot out from the second floor of a large apartment building at 378 Water St. in Skowhegan on Thursday. Several area departments fought the fire. Sixteen tenants were left homeless but several cats were rescued.
A firefighter directs others as flames shoot out from a large apartment building at 378 Water St. in Skowhegan on Thursday.
Tenants Chris Linn and Belinda Nichols comfort each other as fire destroys the apartment building they lived in at 378 Water St. in Skowhegan on Thursday. Several area departments fought the fire. Sixteen tenants were left homeless but several cats were rescued from the fire.
Tenants and firefighters rush to the aid of Cindy Spofford who collapsed as fire destroys a large apartment building at 378 Water St. in Skowhegan on Thursday. Several area departments fought the fire. Sixteen tenants were left homeless, but several cats were rescued.
Tenant Rachelle Clukey implores firefighters to put out the flames coming from the kitchen of her apartment at 378 Water St. in Skowhegan on Thursday. Clukey reacted after a firetruck horn was sounded for firefighters to temporarily clear the unsafe building.
A Skowhegan firefighter lays down a cat rescued from the apartment building at 378 Water St. in Skowhegan that was destroyed by fire on Thursday. Earlier firefighters rescued the cat of tenant Rachelle Clukey, background.
Megan Curtis carries an injured cat rescued by firefighters from the fire at an apartment building at 378 Water St. in Skowhegan on Thursday.
Tenants and neighbors watch as firefighters from several departments battle a large fire that destroyed the apartment building at 378 Water St. in Skowhegan on Thursday.
As firefighters douse flames at left, fire is visible in a nearby kitchen on the second floor of a large apartment building at 378 Water St. in Skowhegan on Thursday.
Skowhegan Fire Capt. Jason Frost puts a "Do not enter" sign on the front of an apartment building that burned on Water Street in Skowhegan on Thursday.
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