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Six units in a Newport Beach apartment complex were heavily damaged after a building went up in flames Wednesday, Feb. 2, but no one was injured, authorities said.

Newport Beach firefighters were called to the Park Newport Apartments, in the 1200 block of Park Newport off Jamboree Road, at about 8:30 p.m. and found a building with six units fully involved in fire, spokeswoman Natalie May said.

Apartments on multiple floors were ablaze and additional help was requested after firefighters thought the flames may have burned through the roof.

A fire tore up the back side of a three-story apartment building at the Park Newport Apartments in Newport Beach Wednesday night, Feb. 2. Newport Beach firefighters put out the blaze in about 30 minutes, officials said. (Courtesy of Rose Navarro)

A fire tore through three stories of an apartment building, damaging six units at the Park Newport Apartments before Newport Beach firefighters extinguished the blaze Wednesday night, Feb. 2. (Courtesy of Rose Navarro)

Residents look on as a fire rages in a 3-story apartment building at the Park Newport Apartments Wednesday night, Feb. 2. (Courtesy of Rose Navarro)

Firefighters, with help from Huntington Beach and Costa Mesa fire departments and the Orange County Fire Authority, contained the fire to the six units in 15 minutes and extinguished the blaze in a half hour, May said. In all, 61 firefighters battled the blaze.

Residents from the six apartments were displaced, with residents of four of those units temporarily moved to other quarters within the building, said Mark Rogers, a spokesperson for Park Newport Apartments.

“The property is structurally sound and has not been red-tagged,” Rogers said Thursday night.

Someone with a hose is trying to knock down the flames at Park Newport tonight. Part of the apartment complex on Jamboree Rd in Newport Beach is burning @cbsla #cbsla #fire #parknewport pic.twitter.com/obAyPSE2hy

— michele gile (@michelegiletv) February 3, 2022

Video posted on social media by CBS reporter Michele Gile showed a resident attempting to hose down part of a burning building.

Rose Navarro, 56, had walked her daughter and grandson to their car after they had visited her for her birthday. She sat down to watch a show when her husband rushed in about 20 minutes later and told her there was a fire next door.

“It was a really nice night and I was just getting ready to relax,” she said. “The flames went up so fast, within seconds.”

“It all looks pretty bad, but definitely the third floor got it the worst,” Navarro said. “There were windows broken, the walls on the outside, the flames kind of worked their way up.”

Firefighters had evacuated Navarro’s unit and others around her, she said, having everyone move back and then across the street through a breezeway.

It was determined the fire originated from a second-floor apartment. spreading to two units on the third floor and another two units on the fourth floor, but the cause is still under investigation, fire officials said Thursday evening.

“It’s an eye opener,” Navarro said. “It’s definitely something for us as residents to just … be aware of what’s going around. It definitely wakes you up and tells you that you need to have a bag ready just in case.”

The large complex sits above Newport Beach’s Back Bay and just north of Fashion Island.

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