Danville house catches fire

Danville Register & Bee
Published: May 1, 2008

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Firefighters are still on the scene of an early morning fire that destroyed a Worsham Street home, the police department says.

Just before 4 a.m a police officer spotted smoke across the river as he was leaving the department, said Lt. Scott Eanes. The house at 506 Worsham St. was “fully engulfed when he arrived and officers cleared the house on the left and on the right,” said Eanes. It took Danville firefighters about 45 minutes to put out the flames, and at 6:30 a.m. it was “still smoldering,” said Eanes.

Four people live in the house, but Eanes said police have not determined if they were home when the fire started. Seven neighbors who were evacuated were not injured and have been relocated to the Innkeeper on Riverside Drive.

The roof and the front of the house collapsed, and Eanes said it would probably be late this morning or early this afternoon before the occupants would be able to get back in. Firefighters are still investigating the cause.