Heavy smoke fills air after vacant apartment building catches fire 2nd time this year

DAYTON — Heavy smoke filled the air after a vacant apartment building caught fire for the second time this year.

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As reported Friday on News Center 7 Daybreak, around 4:46 a.m. crews were dispatched to the 400 block of Cherrywood Ave on reports of a structure fire.

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News Center 7 previously reported on a fire at the same location in May of this year that destroyed part of the apartment building.

“We found the center section of this building with heavy flames in the front. The far section had already been burned recently,” Dayton Fire Department District Chief David Grubb said.

Crews searched the unit that was on fire and found heavy fire in the attic, according to District Chief Grubb.

They did not search the entire building because crews had to be pulled out and go on defensive operations due to fire conditions.

There was no indication that anybody was inside when the fire started.

In May, News Center 7 reported that the dividing firewall kept the fire contained to one side of the building.

District Chief Grubb said that the firewall helped keep the fire contained this time as well.

“The firewall stopped it. The same way it did in the last one. They worked perfectly, these are very well built,” Grubb said.

No injuries were reported.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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