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Fire marshal: gas-soaked rag used to start fire at Spartanburg a

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The charred rag outside the apartment (FOX Carolina/ Aug. 14, 2017) Firefighters on scene (FOX Carolina/ Aug. 14, 2017) SPARTANBURG, SC (FOX Carolina) - The Spartanburg fire marshal said police are investigating a fire that was intentionally set at a Spartanburg apartment complex early Monday morning . The fire was reported just after 4 a.m. Monday at Prince Hall Apartments on Prince Hall Lane . Fire Marshal Brad Hall said a rag was soaked in gasoline, placed between the door and screen door of an apartment and then set on fire. The call was originally reported as a fire with entrapment because the fire was outside the door, but Hall said everyone made it out unharmed. Hall said the residents were able to put out the fire using a pot of water. He said the apartment complex 's brick and concrete construction helped prevent the fire from spreading. “We have no clue who would have done this,” said Teavon Coleman, who was asleep in the apartment when the fire was set. Coleman sai...

River Terrace Apartments

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Quizzes Lists Topics Save The River Terrace Apartments is an apartment building located at 7700 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. [1] River Terrace Apartments was one of the first two garden apartment complexes built in Michigan which used loan guarantees from the Federal Housing Administration , the other being Hillcrest Village in East Lansing. [2] History By the late 19th century , the corridor along East Jefferson Avenue had become a prestigious residential neighborhood . As the automobile age dawned in the twentieth century and Detroit's population boomed, large upscale apartment buildings were constructed along the Avenue. However, this boom in apartment construction collapsed at the start of the Great Depression. However, in 1939, Wesson Seyburn, along with Leonard P. Reaume, of the property management firm of Holden & Reaume, applied for a building permit to construct this apart...