Crime & Safety

Woman Dies in Apartment Fire Off Northeast Expressway

The woman was pulled from an apartment fire in the 2300 block of Peachwood Circle this morning.

A woman pulled from an apartment fire off Northeast Expressway this morning has died.

The woman taken from a fire in the 2300 block of Peachwood Circle at about 5:30 this morning, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Tony Brown, who lives in a building adjacent to the one that burned, said that when he was first alerted to the fire, “I came outside, there were flames just shooting out of the top floor, thick black smoke all in the sky, soot falling, everything.”

No word yet on what started the fire, but it may be the first fire fatality in the North Druid Hills-Briarcliff area since a fast-moving house fire killed a woman on Cravey Trail in December 2010.

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