Niles Apartment Catches Fire

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An apartment fire in Niles is under investigation. The Berrien County Sheriff’s Department says a 9-1-1 call came in just before 5 a.m. Tuesday of a fire at Leisure Ridge Apartments in the 13-hundred block of Leisure Lane. Deputies and a Buchanan police officer evacuated the building after they determined those who lived in the unit that was burning were safely out. Niles city, Niles Township, and Buchanan fire departments got it under control at 5:41 a.m. and the American Red Cross is helping those displaced by the fire. Two sheriff’s deputies were treated and released from Spectrum Health Lakeland in Niles for smoke inhalation suffered in their evacuation efforts. The cause is still under investigation.