Austin Firefighters Respond To Same House Catching Fire Two Days In A Row

NORTH AUSTIN, TX -- Firefighters responded to a fire in North Austin on Wednesday at the same house where a fire broke out the day before.

The Austin Fire Department reported to the fire at 2918 Salado shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday to put out a blaze. Access to the street from adjacent 30th and 29th streets were closed off as fire crews worked the scene.

This marked the second time in as many days firefighters were called to put out a fire at the house. On Tuesday, the AFD reported the fire caused $75,000 in structure damage and another $20,000 in damage to the contents inside.

Patch placed a call to fire department officials to try to determine what may have caused each of the fires to break out, but the call wasn't immediately returned. However, a witness from a nearby business who called the fire department to report the blaze said he was told unattended candles were likely the cause.

Thursday morning, fire department woman spokesperson Michelle Tanzola confirmed an unattended candle led to the fire the first time. But she said the cause of the fire at the home on Wednesday was yet unknown.

In a Wednesday tweet, Battalion Chief Palmer Buck confirmed it was the same house that caught fire as yesterday, but didn't provide details as to the cause. He later also issued a correction on the address of the home after mistakenly writing it was at 2910 Salado, rather than 2918 Salado:

Re Box Alarm on Salado. Address is 2910 Salado. This is the same house that caught fire yesterday. Fire has been... https://t.co/vEr3k3f3jR
— Austin Fire Info (@AustinFireInfo) August" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://twitter.com/AustinFire... 31, 2016

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