New Orleans Crews Battle Smoke-Heavy Blaze
By Ramon Antonio Vargas
Source The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
A fire in Treme on Friday afternoon spread from two vacant buildings to two others that were occupied, New Orleans Fire Department officials said.
The blaze started about 12:50 p.m. in the 1700 block of Governor Nicholls Street, District Chief Chris Mickal said. It started in an abandoned fourplex and then spread to a vacant double which was boarded up, a single-family house where no one was home, and the shuttered De La Rose Shoe Repair Store, whose owned died in 2013, according to the Fire Department.
It is not clear how many people may have been displaced as a result of the fire. One of the abandoned buildings had already been damaged in a previous fire.
The only injury reported was to a firefighter who was treated for heat exhaustion and remained on the scene. More than 55 firefighters brought the three-alarm blaze under control by 3 p.m., according to Mickal.
The number of alarms associated with a blaze measures how much personnel and equipment a fire department sends to a scene.
Staff photographer Sophia Germer contributed to this report.
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