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Officials: Unattended candle started Durham apartment fire
No one was in a Durham apartment when a fire broke out in its living room Friday morning.
Posted — UpdatedBy Joe Fisher, WRAL multimedia journalist
DURHAM, N.C. — An unattended candle lit a couch and started a fire in a third-floor apartment in Durham on Friday morning, officials said.
No one was in the unit, at Arium Pinnacle Ridge Apartment Homes, when the fire broke out at 1:40 a.m.
The apartment complex is at 3611 University Drive.
Fire officials said there was “significant damage to the unit.”
Two residents and a neighbor had to stay elsewhere because of damage to their apartments.
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