Residents Escape From Fire That Destroyed Dormont Duplex

DORMONT (KDKA) -- Fire destroyed a duplex in Dormont early Monday morning.

It started after midnight in a duplex in the 1200 block of Tennessee Avenue.

"It was just roaring, you couldn't even see the front of the whole house. It was just completely engulfed and after they started getting some of that down, the fire trucks started coming," Leonard Dilling said.

Four people were inside at the time and managed to escape.

"They had to exit the rear of the structure," said Dormont Fire Chief Jeff Arnold. "They couldn't come out through the front because of the fire on the porches."

Chief Arnold said the fire started on the porch, spread through the walls and into the structure.

The cause is still under investigation, but no one was injured.

"He grills in the front yard and he usually takes it back onto the porch. I'm not gong to speculate, but I don't know, maybe if it wasn't out all the way," Chip Huggins said.

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