Firefighters battle a fire on Paris Street in Waterville Monday morning.

One of several dogs looks out a car window as fire consumes an apartment building on Paris Street in Waterville. Several tenants and their pets got out of the building without injuries.

Firefighters from several departments scramble to put out an apartment house fire on Paris Street in Waterville on Monday.

Wind-blown smoke billows from an apartment building on Paris Street in Waterville on Monday.

Brenda Taylor, who owns a house on Paris Street in Waterville, watches as her neighbor’s apartment building is burned by fire on Monday.