Crime & Safety

Report: 'Hero' Helps Apartment Residents Escape Fire

The fire occurred at Terra Creek Apartments around 7 a.m., according to an article on Ajc.com.

A man is being called hero for helping residents out of Terra Creek Apartments on Central Drive in unincorporated Stone Mountain after a morning fire started, Ajc.com reports.

Tertiary Pruitt IIΒ  knocked on people's doors to get them out.

He carried one resident, who was coughing heavily, out of the building to safety according to the Ajc.com article.

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