DAYTON — Firefighters extinguished a fire that broke out in a Dayton apartment building Friday afternoon.
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Fire crews were called to respond to the fire in the 1500 block of Huffman Avenue, according to a social media post from Dayton Police and Fire.
Fire was reported to be showing from the front of the two-story apartment.
The Dayton Fire District Chief on scene told News Center 7 that the building is in the process of being rehabbed. He said because the second floor had no drywall, the fire caused extensive damage to that floor.
Sonny Wheaton, the owner of the building, was the only person in the building when the fire broke out. He told us that a candle was the cause of the fire.
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“I was in the kitchen cleaning up and this candle was burning in the living room. It had turned on its side in the ashtray, a bowl was underneath it and it was dripping real slow. I thought nothing of it so I finished going and straightening up, go back in, and my mom’s chair was catching on fire,” Wheaton said.
Wheaton was able to get out of the building without being injured.
Dayton Fire is still investigating what happened. An estimate of the damage was not know yet.
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