Crews return to fight flames at home on Chapel Street

UPDATE: @ 11:25 a.m. 

Fire investigators are calling the Chapel Street fire Monday morning suspicious and say it may have been intentionally set.

The fire was quickly extinguished. No injuries were reported, said Dayton Fire Department District Chief Rennes Bowers.

The structure was vacant at the time of the fire.

Fire crews had to use extreme caution, Bowers said.

“We had to let everybody be aware where the floor was gone so nobody fell through,” he said.

Anyone with information is asked to call the fire investigation unit at 937-333-4500

UPDATE @ 10:39 a.m.

Firefighters are working to put out flames at another vacant structure in the 1500 block of Chapel Street.

The boarded up home where firefighters are dousing flames is right across the street from a vacant home where flames erupted earlier this morning.

The first fire was deemed suspicious.

There were no reports of any injuries. We’re working to learn more.

UPDATE @ 10:30 a.m.

Dayton firefighters have returned to a home in the 1500 block of Chapel Street where crews put out a blaze earlier this morning.

Fire officials said the earlier fire at a vacant two-story structure was suspicious.

We’re working to find out if this is a new fire or whether embers reignited from the earlier fire.

EARLIER

Fire crews are responding to a fire at a vacant house on Chapel Street in Dayton.

Crews were called to the house just after 4:30 a.m. Officials said the fire is suspicious.

This is the second time in the last few weeks a fire has been reported at the house, located in the 1500 block of Chapel Street.