People who were forced from their homes after an apartment fire are finally being escorted back inside their units more than a week later.
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Channel 2′s Berndt Petersen was outside the apartments on Howell Mill Road in Northwest Atlanta Monday, where people have been waiting to get their medications and pets since the fire broke out on the roof on July 7.
People are being escorted back inside the Bell Collier Village apartments a few tenants at a time. Officials said the fire started after someone put charcoal on a propane grill during an unauthorized party.
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Petersen talked to Raheim Plummer, who just wanted to get back inside.
“I got my car back, luckily. They gave us our cars back,” Plummer said. ” But now I’m trying to get my stuff. I don’t want anybody in my personal belongings and touching all my stuff.”