KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Authorities found two young children alone in a burning apartment on Sunday night.

Fire crews were called to an apartment building fire near Northwest Waukomis Drive and Northwest Englewood Road just after 7 p.m.

A resident said she had just put her 3-month-old baby down for a nap when her apartment started filling with smoke.

As she ran out, she noticed the fire was coming from an apartment on the second floor where two girls, ages 1 and 4, live.

Officials said the children were with a baby sitter, but she had left to make a phone call.

She was taken into police custody, facing possible child endangerment charges, police said.

The Red Cross was helping five families that were burned out of their apartments.

"I'm upset and hurt because we're out of a place now," said Tabitha Bloodhart, a resident of another apartment who called 911 and was burned out of her home. "It didn't have to be. My newborn, we don't have much. We only have two chairs in the place and a bed and just got a crib today and starting all over and now I've got to restart again."