Birmingham firefighters battling overnight fire

Birmingham Fire-Rescue battled an overnight fire for a second time at an abandoned house on 59th Place South.

Crews arrived on scene around 2:30 a.m. and remained until 5:00 a.m. to make sure the fires did not reignite. "It's a wood-frame structure house. It's been here for several, it's been vacant for a couple years. Vagrants have went in and kind of torn it up and that's how come it went so fast," said Battalion Chief Thomas White.

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The chief believes the fire started in the chimney before reaching the attic.