Fire Damages Vacant HomeLEESBURG – An empty home that’s over 150 years old caught fire Thursday night and the cause is still under investigation.
Plain Township Fire Chief Jared Haughee said no one was living at the home at 4455 N. CR 375E, Warsaw, and he wasn’t sure what caused the fire. A passer-by saw the fire and called it in. The fire department received the call after 8 p.m.
“We’re still investigating. (The cause) is hard to determine when no one is living there,” Haughee said.
There were no injuries and no personnel property lost in the fire since it was unoccupied. “It’s pretty well abandoned,” Haughee said.
County records list the owner as Jeff Carey, Warsaw.
A neighbor said the home was built in the 1860s, Haughee said. Being an older home, he said, there were a lot of “voids” for the flames to get into and that made it harder for firefighters to battle the blaze.
Warsaw and North Webster fire departments assisted at the scene.
Haughee estimated a maximum of 50 men were at the scene, and firefighters were there until about 1 a.m.
