28 people displaced after massive VirginiaHighland fire

ATLANTA — A fire tore through a historic apartment building in the Virginia-Highland neighborhood early Sunday morning leaving more than two dozen people without homes, fire officials said. Atlanta Fire Battalion Chief Deaunte Grier said they responded just before 2 a.m. to the North High Ridge Apartments off North Avenue. Crews were forced into a defensive mode when there was a partial collapse of the building, believed to have been built in the 1920s. The heavy winds “made it a little harder to fight this fire” as embers were landing on surrounding buildings, Grier said. The six story building is…