The fire happened early Sunday, March 3, along East 38th Street near North College Avenue.
Four cats were killed and two houses seriously damaged in a fire on Boltinghouse Road in Monroe County March 20.MONROE COUNTY, Indiana — Four cats died and two homes suffered major damage in the fire in Monroe County early Wednesday morning.Responding crews found fire coming from the back of both homes, and worked for roughly an hour to knock down the flames in both houses, which sustained major damage.
The homeowners of one of the houses were home at the time and reported waking up to smoke alarms going off and finding smoke throughout the house, fire officials said. They evacuated and called 911.Four cats were killed and two houses seriously damaged in a fire on Boltinghouse Road in Monroe County March 20.Three cats in one house and one in the other died in the fire, officials said.
"Fire investigators ruled the fire accidental and determined it was started by discarded chimney ashes that were still hot," the Monroe Fire Protection District said in a statement posted on social media."The ashes caught leaves on fire which then spread along a fence line between the two homes before spreading out catching both houses on fire.
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