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Officials: Unattended candle started Durham apartment fire
Posted February 15, 2019 5:01 a.m. EST
Updated February 15, 2019 10:06 a.m. EST
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.
