Lebanon City House Fire Injures One, Displaces 10 Residents
When a house fire breaks out in the middle of the afternoon, people aren’t asleep or away. They’re home. Cooking, resting, watching TV. That’s exactly why Wednesday’s fire in Lebanon City caused such immediate chaos.
Authorities say the fire started inside a second-floor apartment along the 200 block of South 5th Street. Once flames were spotted, the situation escalated fast. This wasn’t a “stay inside and wait” moment.
I’ve covered enough residential fires to know this pattern well: second-floor fires are dangerous because heat and smoke have nowhere to go but sideways and up. That’s why officials ordered evacuations along the entire block, not just the building where the fire began…