Dozens of people are displaced Wednesday night after one of the biggest fires this city has seen in years destroyed more than 20 condo units in downtown Anchorage.

The fire broke out in unit 413. The fire department says it was accidentally started by a plumber's torch and quickly spread. Luckily, no one was seriously injured

When fire broke out Tuesday on the fourth floor of the building on I Street, the couple in unit 308 was settling into their afternoon routine.

"I had just laid down to take a nap, emptied my pockets so I wouldn't have any excess bumps," said condo resident, Tom Haggart.

And then:

"The fire alarm. Oh, it is a loud son of a gun. Oh, you wouldn't believe. Nobody would sleep through that," said

Tom Haggart.

Authorities say a plumber's torch sparked the fire at about three in the afternoon on Tuesday, spread through the wood construction, into the elevator shaft and onto the asphalt roof.

Luckily, no one was seriously injured.

"Tom and I could have not been able to get out," said condo resident, Mary Haggart.

"She grabbed her purse and the phone, and I followed along, just like I been doing all these years," said Tom Haggart.

The Haggarts and their neighbors surveyed the damage to the 49-unit building to see if anything could be salvaged.

"That is the part I am so happy about. Which really is kind of a mirror of our life together," said Tom Haggart.

He says some of the photos that he salvaged are more than 80-years-old, chronicling their wedding

day and their 60th anniversary. So the Haggarts are grateful to have them.

"But you know, those are just things and you can't take them with you (smiles)," said Mary Haggart.

A lot of residents are staying with family and friends. The Alaska Red Cross has helped out a few of the displaced.

To contact Grace, call 907-273-3186.