12-15-2017 Morning House Fire in Alton Park

Captain Jonathan Lehman, the incident commander, said the firefighters located the fire in a small room and extinguished it in roughly five minutes. The fire damage was contained to one room, but there was smoke damage to the rest of the house.

The fire displaced the two adults who lived there. Volunteers with the American Red Cross were called in to provide assistance to the victims. The cause of the fire is being ruled accidental, most likely from an electrical malfunction. No working smoke alarms were found in the house.

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