Early morning house fire displaces family, cats in southwest Atlanta
Atlanta Fire and Rescue responded to a fire on Pryor Street early Friday morning, they tell Channel 2 Action News.
AFR says they responded to a single family home to extinguish a working fire at approximately 2:12 a.m.
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Fire officials say that everyone who lives inside of the house got out before the fire began to spread.
While they were putting the fire out, AFR firefighters say they found two cats and returned them back to the neighbors who lived in the home.
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The cause of the fire is under investigation and fire officials say investigators are working to determine the cause of the incident.
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