A fire in the Tremé has left seven people displaced after it damaged five homes.
According to a New Orleans Fire Department spokesperson, that three-alarm fire happened just after midnight Monday morning on North Rocheblave Street between St. Philip Street and Ursulines Avenue.
Investigators say the fire started in a shed in the backyard of a neighboring home and spread to the balcony of a blighted fourplex which had suffered fire damage earlier this year. Radiant heat, officials say, set the roof of a home on Ursuline Avenue ablaze. Firefighters extinguished the blaze after about an hour-and-a-half of work.
Officials say nobody was injured. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
