Fire crews rescue people from burning downtown Portland apartment building

The 5-story building at Southwest 14th and Taylor appeared heavily engulfed in smoke around 11 a.m. Tuesday.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland fire crews are responding to a large fire in a downtown apartment building at the intersection of Southwest 14th Avenue and Taylor Street. Portland Fire & Rescue tweeted pictures of residents being evacuated from upper story windows using ladders just before 11 a.m.

PF&R first tweeted that crews were on scene at 10:43 a.m. Thick smoke could be seen billowing out of multiple upper windows of the 5-story building in photos posted by the fire department, and a plume of smoke could be seen from

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