DAYTON — UPDATE @7:00 a.m.
The Red Cross is helping several people after an electrical fire forced them out of a Dayton duplex on Wednesday.
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As reported on News Center 7 Daybreak, Dayton firefighters responded at 4:52 a.m. to reports of a house fire on Fountain Avenue near Richmond Avenue.
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Dayton fire chief Chris Kinzler told News Center 7 that firefighters found “obvious arcing on the right side of the house” when they arrived.
“We had so much electrical arcing on the right side at the rear that we could not initially put water on it right away. So crews went right to work making sure everybody was evacuated,” he said.
Video and photos showed several firefighters at the scene when our news crew arrived.
News Center 7’s Xavier Hershovitz said he could smell a haze in the air when he arrived.
No injuries are reported.
Kinzler said the duplex can be salvaged.
We will update this developing story.
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