crews extinguished a fire on Sunday in the ground floor of a downtown Portland highrise apartment building.

Firefighters were called just after 4 p.m. Sunday to

in the 300 block of Southwest Lincoln Street, near the Portland State University campus, on a report of flames coming from a Dumpster.

Once crews arrived, they found the flames coming from a parking area on the ground floor of the 14-story apartment building. The fire was inside the Dumpster, and it was spreading onto the ceiling and onto the exterior of the second floor.

Fire crews brought the fire under control by 4:42 p.m., and it was contained to the parking area. A significant amount of smoke reached the units above the fire, and large ventilation fans were brought into the building to help remove it from the building.

Officials said no one was injured during the fire, and the Dumpster was removed from the parking garage. A Portland Fire investigator responded to the scene and is looking into the cause of the fire and damage estimates.

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