A fire at DeSoto’s Brookhollow Apartments the evening of July 28 left a boy believed to be about three years of age with second and third degree burns. He was transported to Children’s Medical Center Dallas. A man was also treated at Parkland Hospital for smoke inhalation he suffered.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation, according to DeSoto fire officials. The Red Cross is helping to find homes for an estimated 40 residents displaced in the fire, which destroyed 12 of the apartment complex’s 16 units.
This is the second major fire to strike DeSoto in a little over a month. In June a fire decimated the Hampton Road strip center that housed the popular eatery Peking Dragon.
