Gwinnett apartment fire displaces more than 3 dozen residents

Fire officials said the apartment’s maintenance staff also played an “integral role” in evacuating people, with one employee forcing their way inside a top-floor unit to get a resident out safely. Another man was able to get outside with his family and a few belongings after seeing the smoke and flames from his living room window, Wilson said.

Officials said a maintenance employee forced their way into a top-floor unit to evacuate one resident during the blaze.

Credit: Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services

Credit: Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services

No residents or pets were injured in the blaze, but flames in the attic eventually caused the building’s roof to collapse. It took 45 firefighters about an hour to get the fire under control.

Investigators believe the fire started on a balcony, but said the building’s fire alarm system didn’t activate right away because of the location of the blaze. The exact cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Three units were destroyed and the two apartments beneath them sustained major water damage, Wilson said. Officials said about 40 adults and children were displaced from 19 units.

The American Red Cross was called to the scene and is providing temporary assistance to residents.

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ALERT: With the Sons of Confederate Veterans' permit denied for the 26th, the Sons of Confederate Veterans "Mechanized Cavalry" rallied at Stone Mountain Park today instead.

The racists -- some of whom were armed -- received a police escort. https://t.co/equMfz3DER pic.twitter.com/dQEAtQwIm7

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Cobb and Paulding Counties: Daytime Flagging on SR 360 this Saturday as Widening Project Begins - https://t.co/5AE62uLtmf

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NEW: The NYPD has arrested a man from Ohio who had a semi-automatic rifle in a subway station in New York's Times Square near the A/C/E line around 42nd street.

The rifle was unloaded and the man had ammunition and a gas mask in his backpack. Reported w/ @jonathan4ny

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MORE: The man allegedly told police he possessed the weapon legally.

Police saw the weapon and immediately questioned the man and took him into custody.

They're trying to determine why he was there. Reported w/ @jonathan4ny

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• Homeowners and motorists have filed more than 3,500 claims for more than $55 million in losses because of last month’s tornado in Southside. Those numbers are expected to rise substantially.

• 1,744 homes have been affected. Of those, 120 sustained major damage and 70 were destroyed.

• Newnan High and Atkinson Elementary schools were severely damaged.

• Newnan has estimated it will cost $14 million just to haul away the debris clogging the city, replace curbs and gutters and pay overtime. City crews have already hauled away more than 120,000 cubic yards of vegetation.

Sources: Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner’s Office, Newnan, Coweta County and the Coweta County School System.

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Though slavery was legally abolished by the 13th Amendment in 1865, federal and local governments perpetuated and often profited off its racist legacy through convict leasing, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws and redlining.","_id":"TU5NSHPPZZFS5AQ5Z5ISTRKPTQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1618514234610,"type":"text","content":"Discrimination and violence ensured generational economic hardship was still felt by many descendants, said Kirsten Mullen and William Darity, who study reparations for Black Americans. For example, the average Black household’s net worth is $800,000 lower than that of the average white household, they said. Erasing the disparity would cost at least $10 trillion.","_id":"FZ5SD7NZEVEGJDAEUESVQGLMP4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1618514234611,"type":"text","content":"Monetary reparations are not a foreign concept for governments in the U.S., though they have largely involved specific groups of people affected by a singular event.","_id":"TM3B44ZONRGYNOSHB3TUOGTYPI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1618514234612,"type":"text","content":"In 1988, the federal government paid reparations to Japanese Americans who were imprisoned during World War II. Florida in 1994 paid reparations to those who survived the 1923 Rosewood massacre, in which white mobs destroyed a Black community and killed at least six people.","_id":"CTPEFVOL5BDYVBFLYUIHAJXXJY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1618514234613,"type":"text","content":"After the Civil War, many Republicans championed failed efforts that would have awarded reparations to Americans who had been enslaved.","_id":"TNOPPFGDGBAPLMXWAKSPLMDBZE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1618514234614,"type":"text","content":"In 1867, House Speaker Thaddeus Stevens, a Republican from Pennsylvania, proposed redistributing seized Confederate lands to former slaves. In 1890, Rep. William Connell, a Republican from Nebraska, proposed creating pensions for former slaves. The measure helped spur a larger movement for ex-slave pensions and was later suppressed by federal agencies.","_id":"XRL43BOMFBDPPK3HKUNHMIGXFQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1618514234615,"type":"text","content":"In September, California became the first state to adopt a law to study and develop proposals for potential reparations to descendants of enslaved people and those affected by slavery.","_id":"WDEGQOB3HVBYNCLUZYZZPVOBJE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1618514234616,"type":"text","content":"And last month, the city of Evanston, Illinois, became the first in the nation to approve reparations for Black residents who were previously subjected to discrimination. 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