
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, October 7, 1993                   TAG: 9310070350
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
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S.E. ROANOKE HOME BURNS FOR 2ND TIME

A second fire in less than a month at a house in Southeast Roanoke kept firefighters busy for nearly four hours early Wednesday.

Fire trucks responded to an alarm just after 5 a.m. at 1201 Tazewell Ave. The three-story house had been gutted in a fire Sept. 7.

District 1 Fire Chief Bev Mitchell said the fire "put the roof on the ground." Mitchell also said the fire ruptured a gas line, causing further problems for firefighters. Fire Capt. Gerald Sullivan, who was on the scene, said gas leaked out and was set ablaze.

Sullivan said the heat of the fire melted the vinyl siding on an adjacent house.

No one was in the house Wednesday, he said. The house had been inhabited by three people - Bobby Reynolds, his son and his brother - when the first fire erupted last month.

The causes of the two fires have not been determined and the investigations have been turned over to the fire marshal's investigators, Sullivan said.

by CNB