Morning fire puts residents on street

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - A mid-morning fire forced residents of a Buffalo apartment out onto the street Monday morning.

Firefighters were called to the 900 block of Amherst Street shortly after 8 a.m. Monday morning when people living there discovered smoke in an apartment. Crews evacuated the residents from the rest of the building, who may not have known there was a fire.

Division Chief Jack Hess of the Buffalo Fire Department said, "I did not hear alarms going off. There was a sprinkler unit in the hallway, which some of the codes, you know, you have to have sprinklers in the hallways that had operated, but I did not hear alarms going off, so we'll have to check into that as well."

Fire investigators are also trying to determine what sparked the flames.