High-rise fire leaves 4 injured including 2 children

Welcome back. We're following breaking news in Detroit's New Center area. Two children and a man are hospitalized this morning following a high-rise apartment fire. Fox 2's Tanisha Cordell is live from the scene at Pallister Apartments. Tanisha, we can still see an active situation there. Yeah, very active, but police and fire crews, for the most part, have cleared the scene. A warming bus just left. I'm told they cleared the first two floors of this 12-story building. This is Pallister Apartments, by the way. So a lot of the residents here who were evacuated. Are now in the community room staying warm. There's a lot of water damage right now, as you can imagine, coming down and a lot of floors impacted by that smoke as well. So again, those floors have not yet been cleared cause of this whole thing. Not sure if fire crews have arson and fire marshals on the scene right now trying to get to the bottom of what happened here. We do know the fire started on the ninth floor. That apartment unit, we're told, was empty at the time. So a lot of speculation on what could have happened, but we do know there was a guy who actually had to be rescued from that ninth floor, couldn't get out or see anything. We're told they call it a dirty hallway is what we were described, how it was described rather, where, you know, so much black smoke, you can't see anything. A lot of folks, as you can imagine, just scared, worried, but evacuated again, three people. Taken to the hospital, those out of those three were two kids, one man, that man, as I mentioned, was rescued, rescued ages of those kids. We're not sure at this time. Fire crews telling us they were pretty young, though. Mom was taken with those two kiddos, too. So count her in. We're told smoke inhalation, big cause here. But take a listen to some of the residents. We got sound from them as they were escorted and evacuated out of this building. But I did see them spraying out a whole bunch of stuff out one of the windows at the back with ambulances here. I hope nobody is injured. But if it's a matter of how massive it is, if they started from right here, that goes through three apartments all the way down. So another resident we talked to Durant Henderson. I think we played some of his video watching the flames coming from the ninth floor. He lives on the 10th floor. He was describing he was watching Fox Two, a Fox Two viewer listening to fire safety tips and what to do in case of an emergency and how to prevent this from happening. And minutes later, he says this is his reality. A vet only lived here 10 days and this is a reality. Again, a lot of residents so hanging out. Really staying warm in the community room as they wait for fire crews to really clear all of these floors. Again, a lot of water damage, smoke damage, as you can imagine. But we'll stay on top of this and pass along some updates as soon as we learn more, especially the cause of what caused all this fire on Pallister here at Pallister Apartments. Reporting in Detroit, I'm Tanisha Cordell, Fox 2 News.