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Demolition of burned Atlanta apartments begins
Birthday cards, family heirlooms, children’s drawings and countless other sentimental belongings are lost under a monstrous heap of debris that once was the Reserve at LaVista Walk apartments in northeast Atlanta.
The Reserve at LaVista Walk
Demolition continued on Thursday, April 11, 2024 at The Reserve at LaVista Walk apartments in northeast Atlanta. (Photo by John Spink/AJC)
Contractors began tearing down the crumbling building that went up in flames in November this week with plans to open the road in front of the complex by Monday. (Photo by John Spink/AJC)
“Three weeks of knocking it down, three weeks of hauling it off. We’ll be done in six weeks,” Project Manager Vernell Burris told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution outside the building Wednesday. (Photo by John Spink/AJC)
The complex now reminiscent of a war zone with pink insulation hanging onto deteriorating walls that are blackened from smoke and mold sits in the middle of a bustling part of the city. (Photo by John Spink/AJC)
Burris, who is with DIG Earthworks, said the building should be completely demolished and all the debris hauled from the site in 45 days, or by late May. (Photo by John Spink/AJC)
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The apartment complex burned down Nov. 10 after two people set off fireworks on the roof of the four-story building, police previously said. (Photo by John Spink/AJC)

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