Three firefighters were injured in a fire at three vacant, adjacent homes in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The fire occurred late Sunday night, according to the Indianapolis Star (http://indy.st/MVC7VZ). Lieutenant Larry Tracy of the Indianapolis Fire Department (IFD) said it appeared to have started in one residence and then spread to the houses on the north and south sides.
One firefighter suffered an ankle sprain and was taken to Methodist Hospital for X-rays, Tracy said in a release. Another firefighter suffered a nosebleed, and a third sustained facial cuts. Neither of those two firefighters, he said, required hospitalization.
Firefighters brought the fire under control within an hour, Tracy said. Investigators with IFD and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department are looking into the cause, he said.
Read more about the incident at http://indy.st/MVC7VZ.
For more on fire response to vacant structures, consider VACANT BUILDINGS, PREPLANNING SEMIVACANT HOMES, and FIGHTING FIRES IN VACANT OCCUPANCIES.
