Fire Destroys Apartment Building
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Posted: 8:56 PM Sep 7, 2008
Fire Destroys Apartment Building
An early morning fire wakes up neighbors in one apartment building. No one was hurt, but the building was destroyed.
Reporter: Jeremy Edwards
Email Address: jeremy.edwards@wsaz.com
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SOUTH POINT, OHIO (WSAZ) -- Several families have a lot of cleaning up to do after a fire destroyed their apartment complex.

Firefighters say the flames started at one of the Lawrence Commons Apartment buildings in South Point.

It happened just before 4 a.m. Sunday.

It took crews more than an hour to get the fire under control.

Investigators say the fire walls in the building helped keep the fire from quickly spreading.

However, the building was still destroyed.

No one was hurt in this fire. Firefighters are still investigating the cause.

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Posted by: Leslie on Sep 12, 2008 at 03:51 PM

To Lyndsy: You are right, this is a very sad situation. The fact that a 3 families lost everything they own is what should be the subject here. I know how they feel for I have been in their shoes. I had my own house fire in 1991 and lost everything I owned. I had a 3 year old and was 6 months pregnant. However, I was also at the scene of this fire, and my question to you is this... WHY are we trying to find blame in anyone. It was a house fire, a complete loss that left 3 families homeless. ALL of the fire departments that responded came to the scene with the same intentions... PUTTING OUT THE FIRE and making sure there wasnt anyone trapped inside. I will say that it was Perry Townships district and they asked for South Point to come for mutual aid.I was riding in the truck with Art Shaw( my fiancee) and I heard him ask for the aid of 1400(SP) and the aid of (400&1500). I took the pictures for Perry Townships FD that are now on Myspace page Please look and tell me what they could save?
Posted by: Lyndsy on Sep 12, 2008 at 11:07 AM

This is a sad situation and you ppl really have nothing better to do then trash talk each other. No one needs too fingers anywhere. Everyone who could be to blame should be working together to figure a way to fix it instead of blameing each other. I was there that night and I know the man who did call and I seen everything that happened. I dont agree on alot of things that happened, I think that perry township fire fighters looked completely lost until SP got there.(THANKS SP FIRE FIGHTERS). While we speaking of Sp FF I was told that they wanted to raise money for the three families who lost everything, but OurGreat Mayor told them that they could not. I know there are alot of rumors running around, not sure if that is true. But I'm here to tell you that if something like this was to happen to someone in city limits don't think that our "poor community" wouldn't be the first in line to help. We are for the most part good ppl who stick together and I'm proud to be part of this community
Posted by: tember on Sep 12, 2008 at 12:57 AM

i live in lawrence commons and was there when the fire had just started and yes it took a while for the fire departments to get there but they got there hannahs apt was already gone when anyone realized it was on fire thats not the fire departments fault.. they did what they could do its not easy being asleep in the middle of the nite jump up fly to the station and wait for the right to get there so u can go fight fire.. our fire departments do the best they can all the time cut em some slack they fight fire, risk there lives for free to help our community.. i feel so bad for hanna and everyone i was suppose to be moving in apt 38 2 days after the fire.. everyone just keep all the families in your prayers do whatever u can for them
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