No arson in Theater fire

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says arson did not cause the fire at The Georgia Theater ...

The three-alarm blaze that gutted the Athens music landmark last Friday morning appears to have begun in the northwest corner of the 120-year-old building. That’s where a dressing room and large closet are located. Just what sparked the fire is not known.

“Based on all the investigative leads at this point, we can’t call it accidental, we can’t call it foul play,” Dondi Albritton, special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, told reporters in Athens Thursday. “It’s undetermined.”