Early-Morning Fire Leaves Northeast Columbia Home a Total Loss
When I first went through the official updates from Columbia-Richland Fire and the early local reports, one thing stood out: this wasn’t a small morning flare-up. A home on Legions Drive in northeast Columbia was hit hard by a garage fire that moved fast, burned hot, and left two people suddenly without a place to return to.
Fire crews got the call just before 10:15 a.m., and by the time they pulled up, heavy flames were already pouring out of the garage with thick smoke pushing through the rest of the structure. You can picture how intense that must’ve been for the first arriving units — seeing a home where the fire had already taken control, not just started.
The good part — and honestly the part everyone cares about first — is that every person inside made it out safely. No injuries at all. But the home didn’t survive. The fire was strong enough to collapse the storage area above the garage and leave damage the family won’t be able to walk back into…