Fire Crews Battle Blaze Inside 3-Story Building In North Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia firefighters worked to put out flames inside a three-story building in North Philadelphia. Officials say the fire, which reached three-alarms broke out along the 1600 block of Oxford Street around 8:45 p.m. Monday.

This building is around a mile away from Temple University.

The apartment building's roof collapsed during the blaze but was not occupied at the time of the fire.

Eyewitness News spoke with a Temple University student who lived nearby and had to be evacuated.

"It was pretty crazy, pretty inconvenient. Our apartment was totally fine, I think most of them are fine, I think they're worried about the flames on the top of the building," Will Helbeck said.

Temple says students were asked to report to Cecil B Moore if they were displaced.

Crews placed the blaze under control around 11:59 p.m. Monday.

No one was injured.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.