Two people were sent to the hospital Monday morning after a fire destroyed an apartment complex in Elwood, Kan.

“I was seven blocks away and I could see the fire going through the roof,” said Elwood Fire Chief Al Wood.

Fire crews from Elwood, Wathena and Rosecrans responded to the Birch Apartments located near 13th and Connecticut in Elwood just before 2:30 Monday morning.

Wood said two people, an older man and a woman in her 40s were transported to Mosaic Life Care with non-life threatening injuries suffered from smoke inhalation.

Eight people in total were displaced by the fire that caused major damage to the four unit apartment complex.

Wood estimates more than $100,000 in damage was caused.

The Red Cross of Northwest Missouri is assisting.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation.