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Fire starts near oceanfront condos in North Myrtle Beach Saturday night

A fire started Saturday night in the electrical room of a North Myrtle Beach condominium but was quickly contained.
A fire started Saturday night in the electrical room of a North Myrtle Beach condominium but was quickly contained. North Myrtle Beach Fire Rescue Twitter feed

The electrical room of a North Myrtle Beach condominium caught on fire Saturday night.

North Myrtle Beach Fire Rescue responded to a reported structure fire around 10 p.m. at the 500 block of South Ocean Boulevard.

“Crews arrived to investigate reports of smoke and haze in several locations of the building,” North Myrtle Beach Fire Rescue wrote on Facebook. “Source was located in an electrical room and was quickly isolated while additional crews worked to help ventilate areas impacted by smoke that had traveled through duct work.”

Fire crews left shortly after the fire was isolated and put out.

The cause of the fire has not been determined.

Chase Karacostas
The Sun News
Chase Karacostas writes about tourism in Myrtle Beach and across South Carolina for McClatchy. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020 with degrees in Journalism and Political Communication. He began working for McClatchy in 2020 after growing up in Texas, where he has bylines in three of the state’s largest print media outlets as well as the Texas Tribune covering state politics, the environment, housing and the LGBTQ+ community.
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