More than 100 evacuate from fire in Berkeley

Byby Nick Smith KGO logo
Friday, March 21, 2014
More than 100 residents evacuated from a fire in Berkeley overnight.
More than 100 residents evacuated from a fire in Berkeley overnight.
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BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- Berkeley firefighters are at an overnight fire that raced through an apartment building just off the Cal campus.



More than 100 people, mostly students, evacuated from the building on University and San Pablo Avenue. Firefighters said the blaze started when somebody threw a lit cigarette butt from an elevated area into a person's belongings below.



One person was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation.

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