Morgantown apartment building fire injuries 2, leaves other residents looking for a place to stay

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A fire at an apartment building at Marjorie Gardens in Morgantown has resulted in multiple injuries and close to a dozen residents becoming displaced.

The Brookhaven Volunteer Fire Department was the first to respond among a half dozen different departments around the Morgantown area to the scene early Wednesday night, where a fire inside an apartment on the lower end of a building at the start of the property resulted in two injuries.

Residents who lived inside the singular building were evacuated as crews from the Morgantown Fire Department, Westover Volunteer Fire Department, Star City VFD, the Granville Fire Department, and Cool Springs worked to isolate the fire less than two hours after it was called in.

“We had a fire in a downstairs apartment, that apartment