Apartment building catches fire in southeast Denver on Hampden Avenue, 1 person taken to hospital

A two-alarm fire heavily damaged an apartment building in southeast Denver on Wednesday afternoon. One person was injured and taken to the hospital.

It started sometime after 2 p.m. at 8525 East Hampden Avenue, and flames could be seen coming from the building's roof. The Denver Fire Department said firefighters found heavy fire when they arrived.

"So, I'm out on my balcony and I hear a power line and the static of that and then I run out, and I go behind the building and the building adjacent to mine in the back is on fire, and there is a lady that needed help... she was in one of those buildings so another man and I grabbed her... we sat her in my car," said a resident in the building next to the one that was burning. 

Hampden Avenue was shut down from Yosemite Street to Verbena Street due to the firefight, Denver police wrote in a social media post.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.