CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Officials with the Charleston Fire Department announced that one person has been found dead after a fire at the Middleton Cove Apartments early Sunday.
Investigators were originally looking for two unaccounted for residents and that search narrowed to one later Sunday afternoon. The one missing resident’s car was parked on site and they had been reported as seen near their apartment on Saturday, CFD said in an update.
Crews searched the debris left behind from the devastating fire which displaced a further 21 residents and left two injured with minor burns and eventually a Charleston County Sheriff’s Office K9 trained in Human Remains Detection was brought in. The K9 then located the victim in the debris…