Six injured in apartment complex fire

ODESSA, TX City spokeswoman Andrea Goodson said all six suffered burns in the Tuesday morning fire. It was ignited by a candle in a bedroom of one of the units.

Goodson said two of the injured were treated and released. Two were transferred to a Lubbock hospital and two remained hospitalized in Odessa.

An apartment belonging to a couple and another unit where a family of four lived were the most extensively damaged. The other 14 units in the building suffered smoke and water damage.

Goodson said the fire began in the couple's apartment.

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