(Lafayette, Louisiana) - Two kids in a Lafayette apartment fire were sent to the hospital Monday afternoon after the apartment that they were in caught fire. KLFY News 10 reports that the two children were in an apartment in the Himbola Apartment Complex, on Martin Luther King Jr Dr. in Lafayette, when it went up in flames. KLFY reported from the scene that neighbors attempted to enter the apartment when they noticed the blaze, but heavy smoke made them retreat from the front door. A maintenance man on site went to get masks so that they could enter the apartment to get the kids, but once they got the masks, the Lafayette Fire Dept. We will continue to follow this developing story out of Lafayette, and we'll update this story as more information is released from the Lafayette Fire Dept.