An accidental fire at the Sienna Heights apartment complex Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. displaced people living in 10 units, according to a Gwinnett County Fire press release.
Officials said the fire appears to have started in an apartment on the ground floor of the building when some clothing was accidentally left too close to an “ignition source.” The woman living there was able to get out of her apartment with her two children after she heard the smoke alarm sounding and saw smoke in her apartment.
The other tenants in the building also escaped without injury.
Firefighters “quickly contained and extinguished” the fire on the first floor, but 10 apartment buildings were considered “compromised” and the tenants will be displaced, Gwinnett fire Lt. Colin Rhoden said.
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