LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — At least 16 people are out of a home after a fire in the east Las Vegas Valley on Wednesday morning.

In a statement to Channel 13, the Red Cross of Southern Nevada announced it is assisting the residents of six apartments that caught fire just after 7:30 a.m.

According to information from Clark County Fire Department officials, the flames sparked in a nearby tree and spread to the residential building at 4379 Cy Cliffview Cir., which is near Vegas Valley Drive and Marion Street.

A CCFD spokesperson writes that additional resources were brought in to attack the fire, which was "knocked down" at 7:46 a.m. In its initial statement to media, CCFD stated that 10 residents had been displaced: seven adults and three children.

Red Cross volunteers are helping to provide "she

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