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<p>NANTICOKE &#8212; Five people have been displaced due to a fire at the Eastside Apartments that could have been much worse early Wednesday morning.</p><p>Fire Chief Kevin Hazleton said a woman was awake in her second-floor apartment at 5 E. Washington Ave. when she smelled smoke just before 5:30 a.m.</p><p>The woman grabbed her son and called 911 while escaping the building.</p><p>Hazleton said the woman did the right thing by closing doors, which prevented the flames from spreading.</p><p>&#8220;On her way out, she closed the bedroom door and closed the apartment door,&#8221; the chief noted. &#8220;It starved the fire of oxygen and kept the fire to the bedroom. We ran a line and nailed this fire. She did the right thing by closing the doors.&#8221;</p><p>In fact, the department said in a Facebook post: &#8220;We can&#8217;t stress enough the importance of closing doors behind you (in a fire) as well as sleeping with bedroom doors closed.&#8221;</p><p>Hazleton said the blaze was extinguished within 10 minutes. No injuries were reported.</p><p>Three people in a first-floor apartment were displaced due to water damage.</p><p>Hazleton said the second-floor apartment sustained fire damage to the bedroom plus smoke damage.</p><p>Smoke alarms were activated, alerting other tenants, Hazleton said.</p><p>Hazleton said there were no issues related to the cold temperatures. It was around 25 degrees at the time of the call.</p><p>&#8220;We did have the street department come up and spread salt around,&#8221; the chief added.</p><p>Fire departments from Hanover Township, Kingston and Newport Township assisted at the scene.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">A fire early Wednesday at the Eastside Apartments in Nanticoke was contained to one unit&#8217;s bedroom. Fire Chief Kevin Hazleton credited a resident who closed the bedroom door on her way out, starving the blaze of oxygen. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/web1_Nanticoke-fire-01232019-1.jpg</photo0><caption0>A fire early Wednesday at the Eastside Apartments in Nanticoke was contained to one unit&#8217;s bedroom. Fire Chief Kevin Hazleton credited a resident who closed the bedroom door on her way out, starving the blaze of oxygen. </caption0><photoCredit0>Nanticoke City Fire Department&#8217;s Facebook page </photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Ed Lewis</p><p>elewis@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div>

Five people displaced after fire at Nanticoke apartment building