VIDEO: The two men killed in a massive overnight fire at Midtown Park Apartments in Columbus that also displaced dozens of people have been identified.
Muscogee County Chief Deputy Coroner Freeman Worley says 42-year-old Donald Lechowicz and 65-year-old Herman McCikens died as a result of the fire.
More than two dozen Columbus residents were displaced, waking up as their apartment complex goes up in flames and smoke.
Crews say they are confident that everyone inside the building at the time of the fire is out of the building, but are continuing a thorough search to be certain. The fire started just before midnight on Friday, July 31 at Midtown Park Apartments on 12th Street.
Julie Lechowiez lives upstairs in unit 210 and says the fire may have started in her apartment.
“My pitbull has a bad habit of playing really rough, maybe he knocked the candle over,” said Lechowiez.