Sandy Springs apartment fire leaves residents from 10 units displaced WSB-TV Channel 2 [Video]

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — An overnight fire at a Sandy Spring apartment complex has left dozens of residents in search of new homes.

Channel 2′s Steve Gehlbach was at the Overlook Apartments on Colquitt Drive, where fire investigators are still working at the scene.

Members of the Sandy Springs Fire Department have been talking to neighbors and working to find out the cause of the fire, with firefighters arriving on the scene just after 11 p.m. on Tuesday night.

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Investigators told Channel 2 Action News that the fire started on the top floor, possibly in a back bedroom.

When firefighters got there, they told Gehlbach they could see flames shooting from the building.

“I was woken up by the smoke detectors going off,” Margaret Reeves, a neighbor, said.

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