Early morning fire destroys vacant home in East St. Louis
Firefighters were called to the 2000 block of Market Street early Friday morning to put out a burning structure. The house at 2018 Market street was vacant, East St. Louis Fire Chief Jason Blackmon said.
Blackmon said the homeowner lived in a building behind the burning structure. “The people in the back had gone to the store.” Blackmon said.
The call came in at 6:10 a.m.. Two fire crews, from Engine House 422 and Engine House 425, responded. When firefighters arrived on scene the two-story wood frame house was fully engulfed.
Blackmon said it took a little more than an hour to extinguish the blaz.e. No one was injured.
This story was originally published October 25, 2019 at 10:55 AM.
Carolyn Smith
Belleville News-Democrat