Update: Syracuse, NY -- Fire investigators are exploring whether someone may have touched off a fire that heavily damaged the front of a vacant two-family house this morning on North Geddes Street. Power and gas had been shut off at 613-15 N. Geddes St. and officials are looking into reports that someone had been sleeping on its porch, Deputy...
Fire heavily damaged a vacant house at 613-615 Geddes St. this morning.Update: Syracuse, NY -- Fire investigators are exploring whether someone may have touched off a fire that heavily damaged the front of a vacant two-family house this morning on North Geddes Street.
Power and gas had been shut off at 613-15 N. Geddes St. and officials are looking into reports that someone had been sleeping on its porch, Deputy Fire Chief Ed Kurtz said.
Firefighters arriving about 12:55 a.m. found flames shooting from the ground floor through the second story to the attic and rapidly spreading inside, Kurtz said. Heat from the blaze was melting plastic siding on the house to the left at 609-11 N. Geddes St. and the wiring serving the home to the right at 617-19, he said.
They poured water on the exterior for a few minutes to cool the structure so that firefighters could attack the fire from inside, he said. It took about 10 minutes to knock it down. No one was hurt, he said.
The building was known to be vacant and had been regularly inspected by the fire department. Firefighters found no one inside after the fire, he said.