There was an apartment fire in my neighborhood

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My husband and I go to McDonalds with our kids but on the way home we see flashing lights and they turned out to be a bunch of firetrucks and they had the whole entire road blocked off going the other direction. My husband and I saw smoke rising out of the apartment complex and I look at it but I don't see any flames and we could even smell the smoke. We go home and my son wants to see the fire so we walk down there and they had already put it out. Now they were airing it out and packing up the hoses and taking off their oxygen equipment. I see it only happened in one unit and the fire didn't look too bad, only the bedroom window broke and none of the other units were damaged. The stuff in the apartment looked undamaged and untouched from the fire. So I could tell the fire only happened in the bedroom. They also stayed around while the other firetrucks left and they brought out the burnt stuff from the bedroom and smoke rose from it. Every time they entered the apartment and came back out, I could still smell the smoke. I even saw a fire investigator come and he got on his uniform and got his equipment and went inside. Then we left and I come back two hours later and the firemen are gone and other people are there and they had cleaned the apartment and boarded up the bedroom window and put the burnt stuff back inside the unit and there was a note left on the door and they had a lock on the door because the door had a hole in it so the firemen could get inside to put out the fire. I asked about it and it wasn't arson they were told but there was lot of smoke damage and only one room was burned and lot of stuff in that room was all lost. I couldn't imagine how scary it must have been for the neighbors next to that unit when they saw there was a fire next to them and luckily their unit wasn't damaged from it. It also appear no one was home when the fire started and they caught it in time before it spread. They didn't even have to cut a hole in the roof but they had to stick around to make sure it wouldn't spread and the fire wouldn't start up again because there was still smoke and they had to take out the burnt stuff.

But whoever lives there is going to come home to a surprise. I am just glad no one was hurt and lot of stuff wasn't lost (except they all smell like smoke which might be considered lost even though none of them are covered in soot) and no other units were harmed by the fire.