Search continues for woman after NW Atlanta fire

Breaking news out of northwest Atlanta, where fire crews have been on the scene of a house fire since about 5.30 this morning. So this is happening on Larchmont Court, and there were reports that an elderly woman may have been trapped inside. So Good Day's Mark Teichner is joining us now with the very latest. Mark? That's right. They're still apparently looking for this woman. She, as you mentioned, described as being an older woman, possibly gets around using a wheelchair. And at this point, firefighters have conducted multiple searches, and they're still trying to find her. So they're hopeful that they're going to be able to find her alive. Unfortunately, at least for now, that has not yet been the case. Here's what we were told. About 5.30 or so, they showed up at the Split Level home on Larchmont Road. Court, this is in the Collier Heights neighborhood, and when they arrived, this home was fully engulfed in flames. Again, a split-level house. There's actually an outbuilding behind the building, and there's a woman who lived in that particular building. Now, she got out okay, and she was the one who told firefighters that this older woman was potentially still inside the house. Making matters more difficult for these firefighters is the fact that there's some power lines that are down. Also, this was a very, very hot fire, a fire that really stressed them. They did what they could to go in and try to find this woman, knowing that there's potential that there could be a life-saving situation going on. But at this point, they've yet to be able to confirm whether this woman has been found. Also making matters more difficult for them is that the second floor has collapsed. Collapsed in this building. So it is now collapsed down onto the first floor. So you've got all the debris from the second floor as well as all the water, which is hampering their efforts to try to locate this woman. We did talk with fire officials about what they're trying to do to find her. At this time, we've done multiple searches on both floors. However, our searches have been limited due to second floor collapsing, what we believe to be prior to the arrival of our firefighters. Yeah, so they are hopeful, but they continue to search. At this point, no word as to what's the cause of the fire. They tell us that there are some concerns that there's some gas product, meaning utilities, as well as like a gas stove that could be feeding the fire. At this point, most of the fire is out. You can't really see it from our location, but there are still some hot spots that these firefighters are dealing with while they continue the search. We'll let you know if they do end up finding this woman. But for now, that is the latest from here in northwest Atlanta. I'm Mark Teichman for Good Day Atlanta. Thank you, Mark. Thank you for that latest update.