In The News 3 July 2012

North West Street fire considered 'suspicious'

By
Brandy Chandler-brandychandler@gmail.com

Hillsboro Fire and Rescue is calling a fire in an unoccupied structure in the 100 block of North West Street "suspicious" after crews responded to a report of smoke on Tuesday afternoon.

The Hillsboro Police Department closed the block to traffic just after 2 p.m. Tuesday while Hillsboro Fire and Rescue, assisted by the Lynchburg Joint Fire and Ambulance District, investigated the two-story brick building at 117 North West Street.

Firefighters made entry to the basement area of the building, where they found the origin area, and quickly extinguished the fire.

Hillsboro firefighter Ed Puckett said the cause of the fire was under investigation, but that it was currently considered "suspicious."

 

[[In-content Ad]]

Add new comment

This is not for publication.
This is not for publication.
About text formats

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
Article comments are not posted immediately to the Web site. Each submission must be approved by the Web site editor, who may edit content for appropriateness. There may be a delay of 24-48 hours for any submission while the web site editor reviews and approves it. Note: All information on this form is required. Your telephone number and email address is for our use only, and will not be attached to your comment.
CAPTCHA This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions. Image CAPTCHA
Enter the characters shown in the image.