NORFOLK, Va. — Editor's Note: Our original story said the fire was on 27th Street in Norfolk. It was a block over on West 28th Street.
Nothing was left of an old apartment building in Park Place after a fire tore through it Wednesday morning.
Crews were on the scene of the fire on West 28th Street for several hours, starting around 2 a.m.
One neighbor, Tony Brooks, lives directly next to the building that caught fire. He said neighbors came by early in the morning to help get him out, where the flames were reaching the sides of his house.
"Had it not been for our neighbors beating on our door and walls, we probably would have ended up burnt up in the fire," said Brooks.
Another neighbor, Brie Wheeler, said she and her fiancée woke up to noises from the building crumbling. The heat from the flames ended up melting the siding of their home, as well as several others, and caused their windows to crack.
"We had every single neighbor, every child, every pet accounted for," said Wheeler.
No one was hurt in the fire. Firefighters said they are still investigating the cause.
Cleanup crews were there after firefighters had the flames put out. The crews, in part, used a backhoe to do their work.