Firefighter dies saving colleague in warehouse fire. Its use as movie studio made it more dangerous

A federal investigative report found numerous problems with the warehouse in the death of a DeKalb County Master Firefighter in September.

On Sept. 8, firefighters responded to a blaze at what they believed was a warehouse on S. Stone Mountain Lithonia Road. Firefighter Preston Fant was killed after helping to rescue one of his colleagues.

“They faced many obstacles from the start,” Tony Pritchett, State Deputy Safety Fire Commissioner, told Channel 2’s Michael Doudna

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