BREAKING: Albertville Apartment Fire Caused by Cigarette Butt, Displaces Residents on Chilly Morning
Residents woke up to banging doors and the smell of smoke as a ground floor unit smoldered Saturday at the complex on Wright County Road 37.
UPDATE, 3:25 p.m.: Albertville Fire chief Tate Mills said a cigarette butt that was not completely put out caused the fire, and the department ruled that the fire was accidental. The "careless discard," in which someone threw their cigarette butt right outside the building while it was still lit, started a fire in the partition that separates the unit from the patio at a first-floor unit, Mills said. "The cigarette butt started the bottom of the wall on fire, and the smoke got inside the wall," he said. One apartment unit is displaced temporarily, after firefighters ripped the wall apart to get to the source of the fire. He said the only reason the unit is displaced is because the walls were ripped apart, not because of the fire damage. "…
Rick
12:20 am on Monday, December 10, 2012
I wish Albertville Fire Chief Mills would have also mentioned the careless throwing of cigarettes by people out of their car windows. Not only classless and dirtbaggish, but those start many median and surrounding areas on fire also. more ›