Atlanta city workers, Georgia Department of Transportation workers and police came out to inspect a homeless encampment Wednesday near where a brushfire shut down a major highway for several hours over the weekend.
The city did not say why those workers were there.
Channel 2′s Tom Jones was at the camp when the team arrived because he wanted to talk to people who lived at these encampments about the fires some of them have admitted to starting.
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“Why do you use fire? What do you use it for?” Jones asked Michaela Dunham-Brown. “Mostly for like to heat it up real fast or for cooking,” she responded.
Dunham-Brown said when people in her homeless camp, which she called a tent city near Buford Highway and Lenox Road, set a fire they are careful that it doesn’t get out of control.
“We watch it. You can see it through the tent and everything,” she added.
Atlanta firefighters say a fire under the Buford Highway bridge near a separate homeless encampment Sunday morning did get out of control. The brushfire forced crews to shut down all lanes for several hours.