Calmont Avenue Apartment Building Fully Engulfed, Triggers I-30 Traffic Backups

A two-story apartment building in the 6700 block of Calmont Avenue is fully engulfed in flames today morning, as dozens of Fort Worth firefighters battle a multi-alarm fire that has triggered at least three alarms and sent thick black smoke pouring over Interstate 30. The building sits near I-30 and Green Oaks Boulevard on the western side of Fort Worth, and the smoke has caused a traffic backup along the interstate near Green Oaks Road.

According to FOX 4 News, nearby traffic cameras and its own crews at the scene show the apartment building fully engulfed in flames. Chip Waggoner said the smoke is leading to some backups and traffic delays for drivers passing the area. The number of residents affected or displaced by the fire remains unclear, and the status of any injuries has not yet been determined, per the outlet's report.

West Fort Worth's Dense Apartment Corridor

The 6700 block of Calmont Avenue sits inside the Las Vegas Trail neighborhood, a 1.7-square-mile stretch of West Fort Worth packed with more than 30 multi-family apartment complexes and home to roughly 14,000 residents, according to LVTRise. The corridor's apartment stock dates largely to the 1970s and 1980s, when the area was built to house young corporate and military professionals before shifting into the dense multi-family housing that defines it today.

The city has previously poured resources into the same stretch of roadway. In 2022, the City of Fort Worth allocated $3.5 million from its Neighborhood Improvement Program toward revitalizing the Las Vegas Trail area around Calmont Avenue, funding infrastructure, sidewalks, public lighting, and code compliance work, city planning documents show, which also noted a 33% neighborhood poverty rate and heavy pedestrian traffic in the corridor.

A History Of Multi-Alarm Fires On The Same Roadway

Calmont Avenue has seen fire crews before. In December 2021, Fort Worth firefighters responded to a fire at an apartment building in the 8700 block of the same street, evacuating occupants and containing the blaze to a single unit without injuries, per the Fort Worth Fire Department's Facebook page. Nearby, a November 2021 multi-alarm fire at the Cassidy Apartments on North Normandale Street near I-30 burned through a building's roof, damaging 16 units and displacing at least 40 residents, with 95 emergency personnel needed to control the blaze in 45 minutes, according to WFAA.

The most severe recent comparison came in June 2025, when a six-alarm fire at the Cooper Apartments displaced nearly 850 residents and required 79 suppression apparatuses and 272 firefighters after electrical arcing near an HVAC unit ignited the roof line, WFAA reported. That fire was later determined to be accidental and caused a partial roof collapse. Displaced Cooper Apartments tenants went on to file lawsuits against complex ownership after being barred from retrieving belongings from units deemed a total loss, with property management citing structural instability, according to NBC 5 DFW.

How Fort Worth Fire Crews Typically Respond

The Fort Worth Fire Department is the fifth-largest municipal fire department in Texas, operating 46 stations across eight battalions with more than 1,000 personnel who respond to over 136,000 emergency calls a year, according to the Texas Commission on Fire Protection. A three-alarm structure fire like the one on Calmont Avenue typically mobilizes dozens of firefighters across multiple apparatuses to supply heavy water streams, sweep for occupants, and keep flames from jumping shared roofs or void spaces between units.

Hoodline has tracked FWFD's response to other large blazes this year, including a January three-alarm high-rise fire near Hulen Mall that more than two dozen units brought under control within an hour without injuries, and an August trackside fire in East Fort Worth that required over 60 firefighters across three hours to contain after it torched a home, cars, and property lines.

When residents are displaced by fires of this scale, the American Red Cross Greater North Texas typically deploys volunteers to coordinate emergency shelter, food, financial assistance, and disaster mental health support, partnering with local municipal agencies during major displacement events. It remains unclear how many residents, if any, have been displaced by the Calmont Avenue fire or whether anyone was injured. FOX 4 News says it will update its report as more details become available.