SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Syracuse fire crews battled an early morning house fire today, on the southwest side of the city. Yet again, it was at a vacant house.
The Syracuse Fire Department was sent to 213 Lincoln Ave, at 2:24 a.m., Oct. 25, for the report of a house fire. The crew arrive to find heavy smoke rising from the back of the house, which was consumed by flames. The fire department said, in a news release, that two people had already escaped the building.
They were likely not the owners, however, since the house was vacant and boarded up. The fire department has not confirmed whether they were squatters.
The fire is one of many across a pattern of fires at vacant houses across Syracuse. City auditor Alex Marion, and his team, compiled a lengthy report of 2024 fires, which found that last year, 25 out of 87 structure fires were in buildings nobody legally lived in…