City Of Milton: Donations Being Collected For Dozens Displaced By Recent Apartment Fires

Press release from the City of Milton:

07/29/2021 11:18 AM

Two major apartment building fires in the past few days have displaced scores of Milton families, leaving them without permanent homes and essential items needed to get by. Knowing all the big hearts in our community, we’d expect there are many who want to help.

Now you can.

The City of Milton is offering three drop-off points for clothing, toiletries/personal hygiene products and diapers (and only those items right now) through the end of next week (August 6). People can bring their donations to Milton’s three operating Fire stations – F.S. 41 at 12670 Arnold Mill Road, F.S. 43 at 750 Hickory Flat Road, and F.S. 44 at 13690 Highway 9.

If you wish to give but need assistance transporting things to a fire station, contact Jeanette Citta from the Milton Police at jeanette.citta@cityofmiltonga.us and she’ll help coordinate a pick-up.

Any donated items not used by residents of either affected apartment complex will be redirected to North Fulton Community Charities, which will ensure they get to others in need in our area.

They are needed first due to a fire that broke out early Friday evening in the Camden Deerfield apartment complex off Summit Boulevard. No one suffered injuries in that blaze, as everyone got out safely. Nonetheless, dozens of residents could not return to their apartments.

Four days later, at roughly the same time Tuesday, another fire erupted on Deer Trail in the 1200 building of the IMT Deerfield apartments. This impacted building had about the same number of units as the one at Camden Deerfield, with dozens more being displaced. As with the other, no residents were injured.

While final, official determinations haven’t been made, preliminary evidence suggests a natural cause – specifically, lightning – for both fires.

The American Red Cross of Georgia also helped provide lodging, food, and certain personal items in the immediate aftermath of both fires.  Those wishing to support this non-profit organization – which aids victims of similar emergencies all around Georgia – can do so at https://www.redcross.org/local/georgia.html.  

This press release was produced by the City of Milton. The views expressed here are the author’s own.