Stu Jacobs, left center, and Jeremy Damren of the Fire Marshals Office and firefighters investigate the section of an apartment building on the Square Road in Palmyra, where the bodies of two tenants was recovered on Tuesday.

Palmyra selectman Mike Cray, left, speaks with apartment tenant Jordan Ballard, who was getting ready to move his car beside the apartment building on the Square Road in Palmyra destroyed by fire on Tuesday.

Firefighters from eight area department consult after fighting fire that destroyed an apartment building on Square Road in Palmyra, where the bodies of two tenants was recovered on Tuesday.

Tenants Joshua Lombard, left, and Jordan Ballard talk with friends as firefighters put out the fire that destroyed an apartment building on Square Road in Palmyra. Ballard said he jumped from his second floor apartment after opening his door to flames and smoke.

Sgt. Ken Grimes of Fire Marshals Office confirmed that two unidentified tenants died after fire destroyed an apartment building on the Square Road in Palmyra on Tuesday.

Firefighters from the Skowhegan Fire Department spray water from a ladder truck as an excavator tears down an apartment building on Square Road in Palmyra destroyed by fire.

An excavator begins tearing down the remains of an apartment house on Square Road in Palmyra that was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning, leaving two people dead and six others displaced but uninjured.