A northeast Atlanta grocery store reopened late Thursday morning, about 12 hours after a late-night fire in a storage area.
Customers and employees were evaucated after the fire broke out around 11 p.m. Wednesday at the 24-hour Kroger store on Caroline Street at Moreland Avenue.
“We did find active fire burning in the rear of the storage room in some of the stock,” Atlanta fire Battalion Chief Todd Edwards told Channel 2 Action News.
The store’s sprinkler system helped confine the flames to the storage room, but other areas of the store sustained some smoke damage, Channel 2 reported.
A company official told the AJC in an e-mail late Thursday morning that the fire was apparently caused by an electrical malfunction.
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