Ten Georgia College students who were living in a two-story historical house when it caught fire and destroyed Sunday night in Milledgeville managed to escape without injury.
The large wood-frame structure, known as the Theta Chi House, was located at 230 N. Columbia St. near Montgomery Street and had stood there for more than a century.
The only report of injury was to a Milledgeville firefighter who received what was described as a minor injury. He was treated and released from the emergency room of Navicent Health Baldwin hospital in Milledgeville Sunday night, according to Milledgeville Fire Chief William Collier.
City firefighters worked alongside fellow firefighters from Baldwin County Fire Rescue battling intense flames that roared high above the rooftop of the large house, which had been subdivided into six different student apartments, Collier told The Union-Recorder.