Three people were injured Thursday when an apartment ceiling collapsed in northeast Atlanta, residents said.
The top two floors of apartments on Angier Avenue were damaged just after rain picked up overnight.
“I got hit in the head with a piece of sheetrock that fell down,” Sheena Saffo, a resident of one of those apartments, said.
She and her fiancé were trying to get her four children to bed when their roof came crashing down, Saffo said.
“My neighbor got hit in the back and the head,” she said. “And her sister got hit in the knee as well trying to get the babies out.”
No injuries to children were reported.
Saffo said rain poured into her apartment for nearly an hour, but the fire department did not condemn the units.
“It’s heartbreaking because a lot of ladies, we just lost our apartments,” Saffo told Channel 2 Action News.
The apartment’s property management company has not responded to reporters.
No other details were released.
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