VIDEO: A neighbor’s doorbell video shows the moment a fire now being investigated as an arson broke out at a DeKalb County apartment on Monday.
A woman died and a man was hospitalized in the fire, which happened at The Hills at Fairington complex south of I-20 near Stonecrest. 11Alive’s Sefenech Henok obtained the doorbell video from neighbor Alfreda Soct, which can be seen below. The video shows flames starting to emerge from a unit and a man running off, putting out a flame on his pants. The woman who died, a DeKalb Fire Rescue release said, had “significant burns and smoke inhalation.” The man had a serious injury from jumping from the second-story window.
The two people may have been a mother and son, the officials said. According to a release from the county fire service, 43 personnel responded to the complex a little after 1 a.m. and found “heavy flames coming from a second-story apartment window” with the residents jumping from it. At the scene after daybreak, significant damage could be seen to at least one unit.
