Three homes are damaged and two families are displaced after a three-alarm fire in Uptown New Orleans.
That fire started around 3:20 p.m. on Hollygrove Street near Cohn Street. The fire spread from that home to two neighboring house. One of those houses was unoccupied and undergoing renovations. The other was occupied by a family, who wasn’t home at the time.
It took firefighters more than an hour to bring the fire under control. One firefighter suffered a minor injury. Officials described that injury as a cut that will require stitches. No civilians were hurt.
Nobody was inside the house in which the fire began.
However, an adult and three children are displaced because of the damage caused by the fire. Two adults and one child living in the second occupied home are also displaced because of the fire. The American Red Cross is assisting those families.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
