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By: Aaron Payne Posted on: Sunday, February 26, 2017 < < Back to Update 2:45 p.m. An Ohio State Fire Marshal spokesperson said she erred in reporting natural gas as a contributing factor in the Carriage Hill fire . The fire at Building 12 was due to electrical wires in the building. The fire source was reportedly located in apartment 1213, an Athens Fire Department report stated . Arson is not suspected in the case. Update 2/28/17 @ 12 p.m. The Ohio State Fire Marshal is still investigating the origin of the Carriage Hill Apartment fire , but has linked a natural gas leak in Building 12 to the fire, according to spokesperson Kelly Stincer . Update 2/27/17 @ 6:16 p.m.  The report from the Athens Fire Department estimates damage from the fire at the Carriage Hill Apartments to be more than $2 million. According to the report, the department estimates structural damage to be $1.2 million and damage to the contents of the building at $1 million. Meanwhile, the American ...

SHELBY TOWNSHIP (WXYZ) - An overnight fire had more than a dozen families scrambling to evacuate their homes in their pajamas. The fire chief says it was all a candle that caused the frightening moments. The neighbors who live in the complex spent most of their morning going back through these apartment units, trying to save whatever personal possessions they could. A lot of these units have smoke and water damage, if they're not completely destroyed. Neighbors shot this video of flames shooting through the roof of a building at the Pebble Creek Apartments in Shelby Twp. "To see the blaze like that, it was horrible, just horrible," Michele Turner lives inside this 12-unit building that was evacuated around 2:30 a.m. Monday. She says she woke up to the smell of smoke. "I ran to the patio to check, to see. When I looked I out I just saw the balcony blazing.” As she was getting her family out, other neighbors and police were banging on doors, waking up people who wer...

Yemen's capital has been struck by a severe airstrike, killing 12 people , including six children. The early morning attack on the Faj Attan area of Sanaa reduced an apartment block to rubble, and was blamed by witnesses on the Saudi- led military coalition . It came days after the UN intervened to call for an investigation into a similar bombing on a hotel in the same city that killed at least 35 people. The latest strike left apartments shattered as onlookers scrambled to retrieve bloodied, dust-covered victims. Some appeared younger than 10 years old. Image: The Saudi-led alliance says it is reviewing its operations Saudi's military coalition was blamed for the bombing by its enemy, the Iran- backed Houthi movement . They have been at war for two years in a conflict that has killed at least 10,000 people and displaced two million since 2015. "The air force of the countries of the American- Saudi aggression carried out a hideous massacre against the citizens in Fa...

Phoenix apartment fire " /> A view of one of the Phoenix apartments damaged by a fire on Aug. 19, 2017. The blaze damaged four units, displaced 12 people and killed one dog. (Photo: Phoenix Fire Department ) A dog was killed and 12 people were displaced in a north Phoenix apartment fire Saturday afternoon , fire officials said.  The fire began inside an apartment at the Mountain View Casitas Apartments on Grovers Avenue and 12th Street and did significant damage to four units in the building, Phoenix fire officials said. Two second-story units were damaged by the flames, and two units below them received significant water damage as crews worked to stop the blaze. No people were injured in the fire, officials confirmed, although a dog in one of the apartments was found dead.  Two second-story units were damaged by the flames, and two units below them received significant water damage as crews worked to stop a blaze at a north Phoenix apartment complex Aug . 19, 2017.  (P...