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CFD Responds to House Fire in Monticello

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From the Central Fire Department
 
An alert neighbor noticed smoke coming from the eves of a Monticello subdivision home on Wednesday, August 20 and notified the Central Fire Department. Firefighters arrived in the 12000 block of Langer Avenue at 4:48 pm and discovered fire in the wall of a vacant home.  Plumbers had been working in the home earlier in the day in the location where the fire started and firefighters believe the work was the cause of the blaze.  It appears the fire smoldered for some time and ironically caused a water pipe in the wall to rupture, flooding a significant portion of the home as the fire slowly burned in the wall above the pipe.
 
District Six and East Side firefighters teamed up with Central to quickly control the fire which was estimated to have caused approximately $10,000.00 in damage.  Central personnel did not have a damage estimate caused by the flooding; however the damage was extensive.  One Central firefighter suffered from heat exhaustion and was treated at the scene by EMS.
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