Detainee charged after fire at Fulton County Jail injures nine people

Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat says a fire inside Fulton County Jail sent nine people to the hospital on Friday night The sheriff certified that five detainees and four sheriff s office employees were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital with injuries related to smoke inhalation All of those people are stable but a sheriff s office lieutenant and a detainee have been intubated Labat revealed that a detainee out for free time gathered plastic trash bags and a plastic bag with Styrofoam food trays in the shower on the seventh floor of the jail s north tower and set them on fire He says that the detainee will be charged He was one of the detainees taken to the hospital All detainees on that floor of the jail were moved to the south tower Read more at WSBTV com The post Detainee charged after fire at Fulton County Jail injures nine people appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta