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Fire exposes problems with alarms at Gainesville apartment complex

Caroline Garnett, right, talks with a neighbor at The Fields McEver, about how worried and scared they are that fire alarms in the breezeway of their building are not working. A kitchen fire in a neighbor's apartment on Christmas morning caused two families to relocate indefinitely. - photo by Joshua Silavent

12272017 FIRE 1 — Caroline Garnett, right, talks with a neighbor at The Fields McEver, about how worried and scared they are that fire alarms in the breezeway of their building are not working. A kitchen fire in a neighbor's apartment on Christmas morning caused two families to relocate indefinitely. - photo by Joshua Silavent

A fire at an apartment complex in Gainesville on Christmas morning revealed that alarms in the breezeway of at least one building are not working, leaving some residents to fear for their lives.