Five families were looking for another place to live Monday after a two-alarm fire heavily damaged a Midtown Atlanta condominium complex.
No injuries were reported in the fire, which broke out around 2 a.m. on 11th Street at Dickson Place, a couple of blocks west of Piedmont Park.
Fire officials said the 2 a.m. blaze apparently started as a car fire, then spread to a two-story home and a nearby three-story condo building.
Witnesses told Channel 2 Action News that flames shot 30 to 40 feet into air at the height of the fire.
Residents from other nearby buildings were also evacuated into the chilly, 40-degree morning temperatures as authorities feared that the fire would spread beyond the two buildings damaged.
“We started running around to all the neighbors and getting them out of their houses and out of their condos,” resident Michael Jarvis told Channel 2. “We were just going house to house, door to door, getting everybody out.”
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