Thursday afternoon just before 2pm Houston Fire Fighters battled a house fire on Palm at Saver in southeast Houston. Fire damaged some of the attic and an upstairs room. At 11:12 pm they were again dispatched to the same house for a reported house fire. When they arrived they had heavy fire from the roof and second floor of the home. Firefighters spent over an hour trying to contain the blaze. According to a Senior Captain the home was an older home built with heavy timbers and the roof made of tongue and groove wood, not light construction as done in modern day. With this type of construction a fire burns longer and hotter. There were no injuries, however it was evident as firefighters exited the structure how hard they had been working. The fire is under investigation.
