CARROLL COUNTY, Ga. — One person died and another was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital after a fire in Carroll County early Tuesday morning.
Channel 2’s Audrey Washington was on Daniel Road near Carrollton Villa Rica Hwy. where the fire happened.
NewsChopper 2 flew over what was left of the home on Tuesday afternoon and found nothing but rubble and ash.
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Neighbors say the flames were so intense and spread so quickly, they couldn’t run in to help. Instead, all they could do was watch from the backyard.
“It was just orange, like the whole sky over there was orange and black smoke,” neighbor Savannah Corbitt said. “By the time the first officer got here, it was engulfed already.”
Fire investigators are still looking into what caused the fire.
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“I still can’t imagine, I wouldn’t wish that on anybody, it’s so sad,” Corbitt said.
She says embers from the flames started coming over to her own property, so she had to start spraying water to keep her home from catching fire as well.
Neither of the victims’ identities have been released.
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