ATLANTA — Atlanta Fire and Rescue confirmed that an elderly woman is dead after a fire in Buckhead.
Crews were on the scene battling a fire at an apartment complex on Lakemoore Drive Monday night.
Atlanta fire officials said when they arrived at the scene, there was a lot of fire on the second floor of the three-story building.
A bystander told AFRD a person was trapped inside. Firefighters broke the door down to try to rescue the woman from inside the building, but when they found her, she had already succumbed to her injuries.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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