Fire that destroys house on Monroe Street in Belleville is under investigation
Fire destroyed a vacant house early Thursday in the 600 block of Monroe Street in Belleville.
Chief Tom Pour of the Belleville Fire Department said the call came in around 1 a.m. The house was in flames when firefighters arrived. Fire investigators are trying to find the cause.
No one was injured.
Pour said the owner had just turned electricity on at the house, but no one was living there.
It took 30-45 minutes to knock down the main body of the fire, Pour said. It took two hours total before it was extinguished, he said.
“The street department brought a bulldozer in to knock the walls down and pull the roof out that had collapsed to help us gain access,” Pour said.
This story was originally published June 18, 2020 at 2:17 PM.
Carolyn Smith
Belleville News-Democrat