ESSEX, Md. — An overnight fire left 18 people displaced at Kings Mill Apartments in Essex.
Flames broke out just after midnight Friday.
Firefighters arrived to find multiple people hanging from the windows.
Captain Len Stewart tells us one person jumped from a window, and was miraculously unharmed.
"The ground being wet and the grace of God," said Stewart.
In total 11 adults and 7 children are displaced. None of them injured.
One firefighter suffered a minor injury and underwent evaluation at a local hospital.
Stewart believes an electrical strip on the first floor caused the fire.
Three apartments in the complex are uninhabitable. Two others on the top level sustained smoke and water damage.
Kings Mill Apartments currently has several vacant apartments to house those impacted until the Red Cross can place them.
