Firefighters stayed on the scene of a massive apartment fire in the Cotswold area of Southeast Charlotte all night. They're making sure no hotspots flare up overnight.
Late Monday night, Eyewitness News learned a cigarette discarded in a flowerpot started the fire.
It took more than 60 firefighters and nearly an hour to get a three-alarm fire at a south Charlotte apartment complex under control Monday.
Firefighters say ten of the 16 Regency Apartments were spared fire damage, but smoke and water filled most of the rooms in this building.
Most people who live in the apartment complex were at work when the fire started; they returned home to find their complex surrounded by fire crews desperately trying to put out the flames as they shot through the roof.
Some residents were able to get important items out, from pets to computers to clothes.
Everything else inside will be covered by renters insurance. All the renters have it because the apartment complex mandates it.
The fire department says the blaze caused an estimated $750,000 worth of damage.
No one was hurt.
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