Emergency crews converged on a Georgetown, Kentucky, apartment complex Wednesday morning after a possible fire was reported, but officials later said the smoke came from a malfunctioning water heater.
What happened?
At about 11 a.m. on July 15, responders were called to Colonial Gardens Apartments on Williamsburg Lane in Georgetown’s The Colony neighborhood following a report of smoke from an upstairs unit, Georgetown Fire Department Chief Seth Johnson told The News-Graphic.
Firefighters did not find any flames at the scene. Instead, Johnson said the smoke was traced to a water heater located in the attic above the unit.
“The fuse was blown on the water heater – had some sparking on the water heater unit itself – so they isolated the water heater, shut off power to the water heater, and now they’re just making sure there wasn’t any other extension,” Johnson said at the scene…