State fire officials will investigate two Labor Day fires that destroyed several apartments on opposite ends of Walker County.
A fire in Rossville that burned down an apartment building and a fire in LaFayette, Ga., that destroyed the top floor of an apartment were reported Tuesday to the Georgia Insurance and Fire Safety Office, office spokesman Wayne Whitaker said.
Officials said they couldn’t speculate on whether the cases are related, but that the incidents were unusual because there were two fires in one day and apartment fires in general are rare.
“This is the first (apartment fire) I can recall,” said Bengie Clift, LaFayette assistant director of public safety.
“It’s fairly uncommon to hear of apartments burning,” said Jeffrey Putnam, Northwest Georgia Chapter of the American Red Cross director of emergency services.