Fire department officials said the fire started in a car engine in the garage and quickly spread to the rest of the house. The fire department received the call around 9 p.m. Sunday and the fire was extinguished about 30 minutes later.
Clinton was born in Hope, but he moved to Hot Springs in 1953 and graduated from high school there.
The home that burned, at 213 Scully St., was one his family lived in during his early years in Hot Springs.
On Friday, a cottage in Lake Winola, Pa., owned by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's family was slightly damaged in a fire that destroyed an adjacent home. The cottage sustained heat damage on the side and water damage inside and several windows were broken, firefighters said.
The New York senator's late father, Hugh Rodham, grew up in nearby Scranton, Pa., and the family would return to Lake Winola for vacations when the senator was a child growing up in Illinois.
