After Fort Worth firefighters battled an apartment fire for nearly nine hours on Monday, 834 people are now without a home.The Fort Worth Fire Department responded around 1:30 p.m. Monday to reports of a fire at The Cooper apartment complex on West Rosedale Street.

The Cooper apartments on West Rosedale Street burned for hours Monday in a historic six-alarm fire. Tuesday night marked some of the first steps toward recovery, as some residents of The Cooper were let inside the building to grab their belongings.

A six-alarm accidental fire at a Fort Worth apartment complex displaced over 800 residents, with the official cause still under investigation due to challenges posed by the building's rubber roof.