While the cause of a fire that destroyed an East Point apartment building remains under investigation, officials said Monday that water hydrants used to fight the blaze were in "adequate" condition.
Twenty-five residents of a six-unit building were displaced but none was injured in the Friday afternoon blaze in the Colony at Camp Creek Apartments in the 3200 block of Drexel Lane, fire officials said. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries.
Shortly after the fire, East Point Fire Department and Water Department officials said they would investigate why hydrants reportedly were not operating at full capacity.
Most of the hydrants involved in the fire are privately owned by the apartment complex, which is responsible for maintaining them, officials said.
In a news release Monday, officials said they have finished probing the water pressure issues and determined that the hydrants at the complex were found to be more than adequate when they were inspected as recently as Oct. 15.
The hydrants have been re-inspected since the fire, and the water flow meets minimum national standards, officials said.
Though the hydrants were deemed to be in adequate condition, the Fire Department "plans to advise property management that they need to increase the capacity of their water pressure system to meet the fire load of their location due to a higher volume of water being required," the news release said.
Apartment management has not responded to a request for comment.
Private and public hydrants are inspected by the Fire Department twice a year, East Point Fire Chief Rosemary R. Cloud said in the news release.
"Based on our records, there have been no problems with private hydrants on the property of the Colony at Camp Creek Apartments in the past," she said. "If there were a problem, ultimately it would be up to the private property owners to repair and maintain.”
--Dispatch editor Christopher Seward contributed to this report.
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