Two unoccupied houses on North Rocheblave Street burned early Monday morning in a two-alarm fire in the 7th Ward, according to the New Orleans Fire Department.
No injuries were reported in the blaze that broke out in the 1900 block of North Rocheblave Street. An elderly woman who lived near the damaged homes was evacuated as a precaution, NOFD Capt. Quentin Brown said at the scene.
The Fire Department was initially called around 6:15 a.m. by the owner of the next-door Richard’s Food Store after a bus, a duplex and a two-story fourplex had caught fire, Brown said. A second alarm was called at 6:26 a.m., and the scene was under control by 7:29 a.m., according to the NOFD…