Location of deadly apartment fire to be repaired

A three-story apartment building that caught fire last year, leading to the deaths of two people and the hospitalization of a firefighter with severe burns, is being repaired for $2.4 million, according to city permit records.

The Rosewood Club Apartments, 401 E. Magnesium Road, was the location of a two-alarm fire in September 2016 that spread rapidly, according to reports. The woman who died was bedridden and used oxygen, and the man cared for her full time. The fire’s intensity likely caused the oxygen to explode.

The nearly 16,000-square-foot, 24-unit apartment complex, built in 1977, is owned by Rosewood Club Associates LLC, of Aurora, Colorado, which purchased the building in 2001 for $2.6 million. County tax records list the property’s value at nearly $6.1 million.

General contractor for the repair work is Building Resources Inc., of Garden City, Idaho. Kilburn Architects, of Seattle, did the design. Kirkland-based Dibble Engineers did the structural engineering.