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Firefighters said they had the huge blaze at an AerSale facility near the Roswell International Air Center in New Mexico under control on Thursday night, as dramatic footage shared on social media showed the scale of the inferno.
"AerSale reports no one should have been in the building at the time of the fire. No injuries to firefighters or anyone else," the City of Roswell Fire Department said in a statement shared to Facebook around 9:45 p.m. local time.
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AerSale supplies aircraft and related products. Newsweek has contacted AerSale for comment via a contact form on its website.
There was no immediate information on the cause of the fire. It was reported by a passerby around 7:55 p.m., the fire service said.
The City of Roswell Emergency Management wrote on Facebook that crews would remain at the site "for several hours, please continue to avoid the area."
According to AerSale's website, it has an aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul operations center at the site on East Challenger Street in Roswell.
The facility is "located in a high, dry desert climate ideal for long-term aircraft storage, with capacity for approximately 500 aircraft on paved surfaces," the AerSale website said.
"It also features over 100,000 square feet of hangar space for specialized heavy maintenance, modification, and disassembly operations," it continued.
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Neighbor Saves Child From House Fire Over Thanksgiving
Elsewhere, a Thanksgiving night fire in Larchmont, Los Angeles, led to a dramatic rescue after an off-duty paramedic, Richard Recinos, pulled 7-year-old Savannah Vasquez from a burning duplex as embers fell around them.
The blaze, which began just before midnight, ignited trees beside a two-story residence on West Oakwood Avenue and quickly threatened multiple families living nearby.
Recinos was driving home from his family's Thanksgiving dinner around 11:30 p.m. and saw a glow. "We watched it grow from a few blocks down," he told KTLA.
He got to the fast-spreading blaze on West Oakwood Avenue ahead of the fire department and first assumed that the home was empty, only to notice a young girl step onto the porch.
That child was Vasquez, who was awake waiting for her mother to come home.
She explained the moment she realized the danger. "At first I thought it was just my imagination, but then it got warm, too. I just standed there for like 10 seconds. I didn't know what to do," she said.
Savannah then remembered her school's fire-safety lessons: "Don't grab anything, leave the house, leave wherever you are."
After alerting her grandmother, she headed toward the exit as the fire intensified.
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