None hurt in fire at duplex

Tuesday, September 2, 2003 | 12:00 a.m. CDT; updated 5:59 a.m. CDT, Saturday, July 19, 2008
BY Staff

A fire believed to have started in an air conditioner caused heavy damage Sunday night to a duplex in the 1200 block of Player Place, county fire officials said.

Nobody was injured in the fire, which quickly spread to the mattress and floor of the second floor of the duplex.

Resident Teresa Cheaton was home at the time. She tried to fight the fire with a bucket of water before calling the fire department, which has a station one block away, said Assistant Chief Ken Hines of the Boone County Fire Protection District.

“She made a valiant effort with a bucket of water,” Hines said, “but the fire got too big for her.”

Hines said that when residents try to fight fires it often causes delays because they do not call 911 as quickly. He said there is no way to determine whether calling for help sooner would have made a difference in this case.

The first floor of the duplex suffered moderate smoke damage.

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