Complete coverage: Downtown Raleigh fire causes devastation
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An apartment building in downtown Raleigh was engulfed in flames Thursday night.
Ten buildings were damaged and roads closed in a busy area of Raleigh between Glenwood Avenue and Capital Boulevard after a 5-alarm fire.
When the biggest fire in 90 years lit the Raleigh skyline, 11 buildings were damaged, leaving hundreds of people in temporary housing. A year later, Sherri Henderson is among those still waiting to return home.
One year after a massive fire torched parts of downtown Raleigh, some residents who fled their homes to escape the flames still haven't returned and work to fully repair the damage is still on-going.
In at least four investigations last year, Raleigh police used search warrants to demand Google data not from specific accounts of suspects, but from any mobile devices that have veered too close to the scene of a crime.
While Raleigh police have maintained that they don't know what started a fire that damaged nine buildings downtown last spring, a search warrant made public on Wednesday shines a bit of light on their investigation.
A five-alarm fire engulfed an apartment building under construction in downtown Raleigh near the Glenwood South restaurant and bar district on March 16.
Six months after a massive fire in downtown Raleigh, some nearby streets remain closed to traffic, so businesses in the area are struggling.
It's been nearly 10 months since the historic downtown Raleigh fire damaged the Quorum Center, but the community manager said it could be at least another year before residents can return to the building.
The Downtown Raleigh Alliance gave an update Thursday night on the construction project that resulted in a historic apartment building fire six months ago.
The stage was set Sunday night for a benefit concert that will support local firefighters nearly one month after first responders battled the massive fire in downtown Raleigh.
A five-alarm fire engulfed an apartment building under construction in downtown Raleigh near the Glenwood South restaurant and bar district just one week ago. But through it all, Raleigh Firefighters stood their ground on the frontline.
WRAL accompanied a few residents into their condo at the Quorum Center on March 22, 2016, six days after a massive fire damaged the building.
Thursday night, Sherri Henderson's window, at the Quorum Center condominiums, overlooked the inferno that engulfed the under-construction luxury apartment building - The Metropolitan.
Want to help? Here's how you can get aid to people who were affected by the overnight fire in downtown Raleigh.
Parishioners at the Edenton Street United Methodist Churched filled the pews Sunday for the first time since the massive fire in downtown Raleigh Thursday night.
Ten buildings just east of Raleigh's Glenwood South entertainment district were damaged when a high-rise under construction went down in flames Thursday night.
Downtown Raleigh residents forced to leave their homes as fire raged on Thursday night will got an initial look at what they left behind and what's left Saturday, when they were escorted back to their apartments to pick up belongings. The residents will have a second opportunity to retrieve belongs on Sunday morning.
The biggest fire in downtown Raleigh since the 1920s was extinguished early Friday morning, but the flames destroyed an apartment building that was under construction and damaged nine nearby buildings, five severely.
Firefighters spent about three hours late Thursday and early Friday gaining control over the biggest fire in downtown Raleigh since the 1920s. At five alarms, around 15 fire engines, 130 firefighters and five ladders were on the scene throughout the night.
Downtown Raleigh residents forced to leave their homes as fire raged on Thursday night will got an initial look at what they left behind and what's left Saturday, when they were escorted back to their apartments to pick up belongings. The residents will have a second opportunity to retrieve belongs on Sunday morning.
Raleigh Fire Battalion Chief Kevin Coppage said all fires present a unique set of dangers. The main danger Thursday night was how quickly this fire spread and progressed to a five-alarm.
A five-alarm fire erupted in downtown Raleigh on Thursday night, engulfing an under-construction apartment building and damaging several other structures.
Want to help? Here's how you can get aid to people who were affected by the overnight fire in downtown Raleigh.
Raleigh Fire Battalion Chief Kevin Coppage said all fires present a unique set of dangers. The main danger Thursday night was how quickly this fire spread and progressed to a five-alarm.
Several downtown Raleigh streets will likely remain closed until Monday as firefighters clean up after a major fire that brought down an unfinished apartment building, Fire Chief John McGrath said Friday.
Ten buildings in downtown Raleigh were damaged Thursday by a roaring fire that started in a construction site.
Dr. Joel Schneider lives on the 14th floor across from a building under construction that burned Thursday night.
A construction crane collapsed in the heat of a fire in downtown Raleigh, damaging a building across the street and setting off sparks as it fell. (Video courtesy Brett Hanley)
Firefighters spent about three hours late Thursday and early Friday gaining control over the biggest fire in downtown Raleigh since the 1920s. At five alarms, around 15 fire engines, 130 firefighters and five ladders were on the scene throughout the night.
Kirk Eilers lives in The Link, an apartment building near the Metropolitan, an apartment also under construction and covered in flames.
An apartment building in downtown Raleigh was engulfed in flames Thursday night.
Residents of downtown Raleigh, visitors and those who were out on Glenwood South for the evening captured the flames as a building under construction burned Thursday night.
Downtown Raleigh residents forced to leave their homes as fire raged on Thursday night can meet at Raleigh City Hall Saturday morning at 8 a.m. to be escorted back to their apartments to pick up belongings. But it could be months before those residents return for good, Raleigh Fire Chief John McGrath said.
An apartment building in downtown Raleigh was engulfed in flames Thursday night.