Windows and doors at a Suite Liv’n apartment building off of Village Drive in Marshall were boarded up after an apartment fire Monday night. There were no injuries reported to people from the fire, but one resident escaped the building by jumping from a second-story window, said Marshall Fire Chief Quentin Brunsvold.

MARSHALL — A Monday night fire displaced the residents of a Marshall apartment building. An American Red Cross spokesperson said Tuesday that a total of six people were affected by the fire. Marshall Fire Chief Quentin Brunsvold said no injuries were reported to people, but a dog in one of the apartments died.

“We don’t have a timeline on when they’ll be able to go home,” Brunsvold said. The fire is under investigation by the Minnesota State Fire Marshal’s Office.

Brunsvold said the Marshall Fire Department received a call around 11:09 p.m. Monday for a fire and thick smoke in an apartment at 501 Village Drive. The building is one of several apartment buildings owned by Suite Liv’n along Village Drive.

Brunsvold said the smoke in the building prevented some residents from leaving by the stairs. A resident of the only occupied apartment on the building’s second story escaped by jumping from a window, Brunsvold said. Brunsvold said that tenant was uninjured. Another resident of the building was assisted out by Marshall Police, he said.

Firefighters from the Marshall, Ghent and Lynd Fire Departments faced a challenge getting water to the building, Brunsvold said. The building was located in the northwest corner of the apartment complex, and there were no hydrants in the complex. Firefighters had to use a hydrant on the street. “We ran into issues” trying to get water from the street to the fire scene through hose lines, he said. However, there was enough water in the fire truck to help knock down the fire.

“The firefighters did a phenomenal job,” putting out the fire and conducting searches of the building, Brunsvold said. He said the building also had working fire alarm systems to help alert residents. “That’s very, very important.”

The Red Cross was called in to help the residents of the apartment building. Sue Thesenga of the American Red Cross serving southern Minnesota said the organization was in the process of contacting residents of the apartment building, and figuring out what their needs were. Some of the high-priority things were to make sure residents had shelter and food, she said.