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Firefighters respond to house fire on West Conway Drive in Buckhead area

By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
Published  February 23, 2024 7:54am EST
Atlanta
FOX 5 Atlanta

Homeowner describes waking up to fire Friday morning

The man who owns the home on West Conway Drive that caught fire Friday morning tells FOX 5 what woke him up and what happened.

ATLANTA - Firefighters responded to a house fire Friday morning in the 700 block West Conway Drive NW near Northside Drive in the Buckhead area.

The fire was reported shortly after 6 a.m.

The homeowner told FOX 5 that he woke up to a sound he thought was electronics chirping, but then he discovered it was the fire alarm. He started investigating, trying to find out where it was coming from. The man says he looked into the kitchen and saw smoke and when he opened the door to the home's basement, he saw flames. The homeowner says that when he realized what was going on, he tried to get everyone out of the house as quickly as possible. 

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No information has been released yet about the possible cause of the fire.

A woman was critically injured and two dogs were killed during a house fire shortly before 2 a.m. at a home on Fair Lane in DeKalb County on Friday. 

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