The fire began in a garage on the 5600 block of Lyndale Avenue South around 11:25 p.m., the Minneapolis Fire Department said. It spread to two adjacent buildings — a three-story apartment complex and a residential motel.

Roughly 50 residents from the 5600 block of Lyndale Avenue S. have been displaced, and minor injuries were reported to two firefighters and a civilian, said Assistant Fire Chief Melanie Rucker. Fire officials have yet to address a preliminary cause for the blaze.

More than 50 Minneapolis residents have been displaced after a fire raged through a three-story residential building and a motel-turned-affordable housing operation late Wednesday night. Minneapolis fire crew responded to reports of a garage with about five to seven cars inside on fire around 11:25 p.

An overnight fire in Minneapolis destroyed three buildings, injured three people, and left at least 50 others displaced from their homes.

A large fire in south Minneapolis that burned for hours from late Wednesday into Thursday morning left three people — including two firefighters — injured and displaced dozens of residents.