
{"id":1404,"date":"2007-12-06T07:40:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T15:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/12\/06\/residents-escape-another-carrboro-apartment-fire\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T07:40:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T15:40:59","slug":"residents-escape-another-carrboro-apartment-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/12\/06\/residents-escape-another-carrboro-apartment-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents escape another Carrboro apartment fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Emily Burns<\/strong><br \/>\nCarrboro Commons Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More than two dozen residents escaped unharmed as fire swept through J Building at Ashbrook Apartments, 601 Jones Ferry Road in Carrboro, at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 28. The cause is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Chief Trey Mayo of the Carrboro Fire-Rescue Department hopes that investigations underway by the fire department, the State Bureau of Investigation and the insurer will find the cause.<br \/>\nMayo noted that investigators have determined where in the building the fire started, but not what caused it.<\/p>\n<p>Three minor injuries were sustained by responders.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> A fire department press release said firefighters rescued a number of pets.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-six residents, including 25 adults and one child, were displaced by Wednesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fire. All of the residents were housed overnight by local hotels.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Kent Squires said the fire was first reported at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday by a resident of Cedarwood Lane who saw flames through the woods that separate Cedarwood Lane from Ashbrook Apartments.<\/p>\n<p>According to Squires, the fire took place in the J Building of the complex, which is made up of 15 units. Seven of the units were only damaged by water; eight were damaged by water, smoke and fire; and of those eight, four were destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Carrboro firefighters were assisted by several local fire and police departments, including the Chapel Hill, New Hope and Chatham County fire departments, and the Chapel Hill Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The Ashbrook apartment complex is not equipped with a sprinkler system, but Squires said that the complex was built in accordance with fire codes that existed at the time of its completion. Building J is expected to be uninhabitable for some time.<\/p>\n<p>This latest and most serious conflagration was the 7th in four days in a series of fires at Carrboro apartment complexes, many of which were built before sprinklers were mandated.<\/p>\n<p><em> Jack Carley contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emily Burns Carrboro Commons Writer More than two dozen residents escaped unharmed as fire swept through J Building at Ashbrook Apartments, 601 Jones Ferry Road in Carrboro, at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 28. The cause is under investigation. Deputy Chief Trey Mayo of the Carrboro Fire-Rescue Department hopes that investigations underway by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}