Dive summary:

• At 2 a.m. this morning, a fire caused by an overflowing trash incinerator in Columbus, Ga., set the apartments above the incinerator ablaze.
• The fire started in the incinerator in the bottom for the building and went up the trash chute to the top, igniting the in-between apartments.
• The fire department was able to extinguish the fire before anyone was injured.

From the article:

People stood on their balconies watching as Columbus Fire, EMS, and Police responded to a fire at the Nicholson Terrace Apartments on 14th Street on Monday shortly after 2 a.m.

The Columbus Fire Department told News Leader 9 that the fire was caused by an incinerator malfunction. ..