Police are offering up to $10,000 in the search for two teenagers accused of setting off fireworks inside a Publix grocery store in southwest Atlanta, according to Channel 2 Action News.

Publix employees worked overnight to get the store on the 3700 block of Carmia Drive reopened Friday, Channel 2 reported.

According to Atlanta fire officials, the fireworks ignited a fire inside the building. The sprinkler system went off and extinguished the blaze.

No one was injured, Atlanta fire spokesman Cortez Stafford said, but some did suffer from smoke inhalation.

Stafford said the building was evacuated.

The grocery chain does not plan to remove fireworks displays in its stores, the news station reported.

In other news:

Police are looking for at least one shooter and several persons of interest in the shooting that injured two.

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Julian Conley listens during opening statements in his trial at Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. The 25-year-old is accused of fatally shooting 8-year-old Secoriea Turner in July 2020. (Abbey Cutrer/AJC)

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