Flames consume vacant house in Piqua

UPDATE @ 4:41 a.m.:

All crews from the Piqua Fire Department along with Covington and Fletcher firefighters responded to a massive fire early this morning that destroyed a vacant house.

When firefighters were dispatched around 2:50 a.m., the house in the 200 block of East Main Street was engulfed. At one point the roof collapsed, according to initial reports.

The cause is under investigation, Assistant Fire Chief Chad Kennedy said.

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The house was vacant and no one was inside, Kennedy said.

FIRST REPORT

Piqua fire and police crews are battling a house engulfed in the 200 block of East Main Street in Piqua.

The roof has reportedly collapsed but all walls are still intact, according to scanner traffic.

The fire was reported around 2:50 a.m.

We have a crew on the way and will update this story as information becomes available.

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