Vacant home fire in Fresno prompts investigation

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - An probe is underway pursuing a vacant location occurrence successful Fresno connected Friday evening, the Fresno Fire Department said.

Firefighters responded to a 911 telephone astir 5:30 p.m. reporting flames coming from a operation successful the country of Cedar and Tyler avenues successful Fresno.

Upon arrival, occurrence crews accidental they saw flames coming retired of a vacant boarded-up structure, arsenic good arsenic immoderate vegetation caught connected fire. The flames were wrong a fewer feet and threatening a adjacent home.

Despite the occurrence providing an archetypal situation for firefighters owed to its intensity, crews accidental they were capable to enactment retired the flames. Nobody was wrong the structure, and neighboring buildings were not affected.

The origin of the occurrence is inactive nether investigation.