A two-alarm fire broke out at a five-story residential building at 5275 NW 7 St. in Miami, with crews reporting the flames under control while they evaluated several patients on scene. Miami Fire Rescue announced the response early Tuesday morning and said additional information would be released as it became available.
“MFR on scene of a 2 alarm fire for a 5 story residential buidling at 5275 NW 7 St,” Miami Fire Rescue
posted, adding that the “Fire is under control and crews are evaluating several patients.” The department said more details would follow, though no further update had been issued at the time of this report.
What We Know About the Building
Property records tied to the address list the site under Miami-Dade folio number 0131310110420, according to hawkinscre.com. The listing classifies the property as multifamily housing with 10 units or more. Records also show the site spans roughly 50,595 square feet of building area sitting on 42,840 square feet of land, per the same property database.
Beyond those figures, key details about the overnight fire remain unknown. It is not clear how many patients crews evaluated, what their conditions were, or whether anyone was transported to a hospital. The cause of the fire, its point of origin, any damage estimate, and whether residents were evacuated have not been reported.
A String of Apartment Fires Across Miami-Dade
The NW 7th Street fire adds to a string of apartment and residential blazes reported across Miami-Dade in recent months. In July, a ninth-floor balcony fire at the Bay Parc Apartments across from Margaret Pace Park forced a man and his two dogs to flee the building, according to CBS Miami.
In August, several families were displaced after fire tore through a three-story apartment building in Miami, NBC 6 South Florida reported. Weeks later, in September, multiple crews raced to extinguish a large apartment fire in northwest Miami-Dade, according to CBS Miami's separate report on that incident. That same week, the Miami Herald reported that one person died in a Miami-Dade apartment fire after firefighters arrived to find a third-floor unit engulfed in flames and evacuated the building's residents, per the sheriff's office cited in that report. Separately, WSVN 7News has reported that residents were displaced after a two-alarm fire tore through an apartment in Little Havana, with no injuries reported in that incident.
For now, the scope of injuries and damage from the latest fire remains unclear. Miami Fire Rescue has not yet released the follow-up information it indicated was coming, and this story will be updated as official details emerge.
