Apartment fire sends smoke across midtown Atlanta

ATLANTA — Traffic was blocked in midtown Atlanta four hours as crews battled a fire at an apartment home on Piedmont Avenue.

The 3-story brick building went up in flames just after 10 a.m.

Piedmont Avenue was blocked between 8th and 10th Streets.

Atlanta fire said they did not find anyone in the building and there are no injuries reported.

Smoke could be seen for miles across Atlanta.

The fire was extinguished a couple hours later. One firefighter was injured his knee when he fell on ice.

"The ice was building up quickly from the water we were using on the sides of the home where it was in the shadows," Atlanta fire Sgt.Cortez Stafford said.

Cortez said the wind helped the fire spread quickly, but crews were able to get it contained within 30 minutes.

The American Red Cross said the building was deemed unlivable and that more 30 people were impacted.

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