Fire crews contain 3-alarm fire at Oakland apartment building

Firefighters successfully extinguished a three-alarm fire in an Oakland apartment building on Saturday, announced the Oakland Fire Department on Sunday.

Shortly before 1 a.m., firefighters responded to reports of a fire in the 300 block of Fairmount Avenue. Crews said they saw the blaze come from a unit on the top floor of a three-story apartment building.

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Four fire engines, two trucks and two battalions responded to the scene.

A video from the Oakland Fire Department's Twitter account showed crews spraying water in an apartment engulfed in flames.

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