A Colorado Springs firefighter pulls wooden siding off of an apartment looking for hotspots after a fire at the Centerpointe Apartments on Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. No injuries were reported, other than one cat which firefighters found dead.

(The Gazette, Nadav Soroker)

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A firefighter walks through a burned third-story apartment at the Centerpointe Apartments on Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. The occupants of the second-story apartment returned to find the fire had started, and unsuccessfully tried to put it out with fire extinguishers and the help of a good samaritan.

(The Gazette, Nadav Soroker)

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A firefighter searches a burned apartment for hot spots where the fire could reignite at the Centerpointe Apartments on Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. Twelve units in the complex were evacuated, but only six had damage.

(The Gazette, Nadav Soroker)

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Firefighters watch as water jets out of a window of a burned apartment at the Centerpointe Apartments on Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. The fire started in a second-story apartment and spread to the third-story apartment above, four other units in the building suffered minor smoke damage.

(The Gazette, Nadav Soroker)

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