(Decatur Patch) – DeKalb County firefighters rescued a woman from an apartment complex early Monday morning, officials said. Fire units responding to the scene just after midnight found a 45-year-old woman disoriented from the smoke inhalation and unable to get out of her apartment, according to media reports.
The blaze happened at the Oak Tree Villa Apartments just off Memorial Drive in Decatur. Eighteen units were damaged in the blaze, displacing 35 people, according to reports.
Capt. Eric Jackson with DeKalb Fire & Rescue told WAGA that the woman is going to be OK.
“Thankfully, her condition is pretty good. They don’t need to go to the hospital,” she told TV cameras. “We did have a fast-moving fire that was jumping around … there was no firewall so the fire so able to move laterally both to the left and to the right.”
