Blaze Hits Vacant Home In Foreclosure; Declared "A Total Loss"

In Aurora, Colorado, the Rocky Mountain News reports:

• Aurora firefighters put out an intense house fire [Monday] morning near East Jewell Avenue and Interstate 225, but the structure was declared a total loss. [...] The house was vacant and had been on the market for six months, [Capt. Mark Turley of the Aurora Fire Department] said. According to real estate listings, it had been in foreclosure and was on the market for $160,000. The notice said the four-bedroom, three-bath house needed "major cosmetic work."

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• "We did an initial attack, went in and with our crews inside," Turley said. "But within a few minutes of being on the scene, the whole roof was getting ready to collapse and that's a real problem for us. So we did an emergency evacuation." A portion of the roof soon collapsed into the structure. Firefighters then concentrated on preventing the flames from spreading to a nearby evergreen tree, where they feared it might then spread to an adjacent house. Turley said no one was hurt in the effort. Investigators stayed on the scene to begin sifting for clues to the cause of the fire.

For more, see Intense blaze destroys Aurora home.

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