Detroit Lakes firefighters responded to a house fire Tuesday afternoon off the 400 block of West Avenue in Detroit Lakes. Nobody was hurt in the fire, according to Detroit Lakes Fire Chief Ryan Swanson. The house is under construction and unoccupied, he said. The cause of the fire is not clear, and the State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating.
Smoke was coming from the attic of the one-story, wood-frame house when firefighters arrived around 3 p.m. The fire was called in by a neighbor, Swanson said.
Firefighters first approached it from above, using a fire ax and a chainsaw on the roof, then went in through the front door with hoses and doused it from inside the home. It was put out pretty quickly, and firefighters only needed to use about 100 gallons of water to do the job, Swanson said.
The Audubon Fire Department provided mutual aid, and Detroit Lakes police and an Essentia EMS crew assisted at the scene, he said.
