Crime & Safety
Fire Destroys Vacant DeKalb Apartment Building: Reports
The apartment complex near Doraville is scheduled to be torn down to make way for a new school.

DORAVILLE, GA — Investigators with the DeKalb County Fire Rescue Department are looking for the cause of a massive fire Thursday morning that damaged part of an apartment complex slated to be torn down, according to media reports. The apartments will be replaced by a new school that would relieve overcrowding in the DeKalb County public school system, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The blaze destroyed a vacant building early Thursday in the 3200 block of Shallowford Road, a DeKalb fire official told the AJC. There were no injuries reported.
The building sits on land purchased in June by the DeKalb school district. In July, a fire broke out in a 12-unit apartment building on the grounds, the AJC reported. It was quickly extinguished.
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The complex has been vacant since August, when residents moved out. School officials told the AJC that the fire isn’t expected to delay construction of the new school.
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