No one was injured in a Galion house fire on a Tuesday afternoon. The cause of the blaze is still under investigation according to Lieutenant Todd Eagle with the Galion Fire Department.
Eagle said the call came in to the fire department at 3:34 p.m. reporting a duplex on fire at 422-24 Cherry Street. “Basically the side was fully involved,” he said. “We saved some on the other side. [The house] was probably was 35 percent total gone.”
The two-story, white house, which sits on a corner of Cherry and Orange Streets, was filled with smoke but all occupants and their pets got out safely before safety crews arrived, Eagle said.
“One resident was taken to the hospital to be checked out,” he said. “A 14-year-old boy was checked for smoke inhalation and he was released within a couple of hours.”
Eagle said the investigation into the cause of the fire will continue Wednesday. “It was pretty heavily burned,” he said.
According to social media reports the electricity did go out in Galion, but it had nothing to do with the house fire, Eagle said.
Crestline and Bucyrus fire departments aided in helping get the fire under control, Eagle said. Police officers from the Galion PD helped with traffic.
