SAN ANTONIO — An apartment fire displaced over a dozen people on Friday.

This happened just before 3 p.m. off USAA Boulevard and Huebner Road.

KENS 5 heard from a mother of three who said she lost everything in this fire.

Johanne Maldonado was starting fresh. She’d just moved herself and her three children into their apartment two weeks ago, only for everything to be lost within minutes.

“I know… I’m just happy we’re alive and we’re okay," she said. “They only salvaged a little tile picture of my daughter, which she made me for Mother's Day two years ago, and some paperwork.”

Maldonado wasn't home, but got a call from her property manager.

A fire had broken out at the Avistar at the Boulevard apartments just before 3 p.m.

Fire officials said the house has significant damage both ou

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