Several neighbors on the 200 block of Manheim Street told Action News they were awakened sometime after 3 a.m. by what at first sounded to them like gunshots.
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Officials said heavy fire was showing from the first floors of two twin homes when crews arrived.
Officer rescues four people
Jasmine Humaine said she had a life-or-death decision to make, how would she get out of the inferno that was fast engulfing the apartment building where she lived and the matching three-story twin next door.
"It was like OK, do i jump out this window or that one," Humaine said. "The front entrance was completely in flames."
Her family managed to escape without physical injury, but six people from the multi-house unit next door were taken to the hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation, along with one firefighter.
1 injured in Germantown fire
Both twin homes were heavily damaged in the fire.
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The Red Cross has been called to assist those displaced.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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