No one injured in Henrico apartment fire

Flames and smoke forced residents to flee an apartment building in Henrico County yesterday, with one man dropping a child safely into the arms of a firefighter from a second-story window.

Firefighters were summoned about 3:15 p.m. to the burning building on Camero Court off Hanover Road, just north of East Nine Mile Road.

The man who dropped the child to the firefighter also escaped through the window, hanging from a windowsill and dropping to the ground, where firefighters broke his fall, said Henrico fire Capt. Doug Reynolds. A woman also escaped through the window.

No one was injured. The flames were contained to a first-story apartment and were quickly extinguished, said Battalion Chief Kevin Bartal.

Five residents were displaced from the burned apartment. Officials said it was too early to tell whether residents from any of the other seven units in the building had been displaced.

The cause of the fire had not been determined.

-- Reed Williams