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Goose Creek Apartment Unit Damaged By Fire

Pictured: Pine Harbour Apartments
Pictured: Pine Harbour Apartments

GOOSE CREEK, S.C.–A kitchen fire is to blame for badly damaging a unit at the Pine Harbour Apartments in Goose Creek on Thursday, according to firefighters.

Fortunately, crews were able to put out the fire before it spread to other nearby units.

Firefighters with the City of Goose Creek, Rural Goose Creek, Hanahan fire departments and the Naval Weapons Station arrived to flames from the second-story unit before quickly extinguishing them.

In 2012, the apartment complex was the site of a deadly fire and explosion that killed 69-year-old Joseph Raeth, 4-year-old Samuel Garbe and 19-year-old Morgan Abernathy. Dozens more were left homeless.

During the investigation, authorities say they learned that Shonni Abernathy and  Jerald McCabe used a one-pot methamphetamine lab in the apartment as well as other chemicals and tools for the manufacture of methamphetamine.

In 2014, Abernathy was sentenced to 30 years behind bars for one count of conspiring to manufacture methamphetamine and two counts of manufacturing methamphetamine where children reside.

Nikki Gaskins Campbell
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