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Firefighters see uptick in apartment fires across Charlotte area

CHARLOTTE — Channel 9 has learned a woman injured when her apartment building caught fire has been taken to the burn center in Winston-Salem.

The fire happened early Saturday morning on Yager Creek Drive and was one of a dozen major fires in Charlotte over the past 10 days.

In the video at the top of this webpage, Channel 9’s Tina Terry speaks with firefighters about the recent rash of fires.

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