A huge blaze tore through an Atlanta apartment complex near a mass transit station on Wednesday, displacing scores of people as flames consumed part of the building’s roof, according to news reports.
Television news footage showed fire and smoke billowing from the top of a portion of the complex. No residents were injured, but a firefighter was taken to a hospital after a wall collapsed in the parking deck, Atlanta fire spokesman Sgt. Cortez Stafford told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The firefighter was expected to be OK.
The blaze was contained by late afternoon, but the building was a “complete and total loss,” Stafford told the AJC.
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