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QUINCY, ILL. -- UPDATED: January 6 at 12:30 p.m.
Quincy police are investigating a suspicious fire that destroyed a vacant home late last night.
This is all that's left of the house that used to stand at 2725 Lind.
Firefighters got the call just after 11:00 p.m. last night, when they arrived the home was engulfed in flames. Fire Chief Joe Henning says the fire began on the northeast portion of vacant building, where the roof collapsed.
Police are looking into this suspicious fire because the home had been empty for a year...and had no utilities hooked up at the time. There was a city order to demolish the home at the time of the blaze. Proceedings surrounding the home were set for court on Monday.
A Quincy family is also counting its blessings after a close call Wednesday night where the fire easily spread to the home next door at 2727 Lind street.
There was an elderly woman Dorothy Brown sleeping inside at the time.
Thankfully a neighbor pounded on the doors of her home and woke her up.
Then another neighbor Adams County paramedic Kyle Dixon helped escort her from the burning home.
She was unharmed.
We talked with Dixon today.
He says he just did what anyone else would do.
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ORIGINAL STORY
An investigation is underway into the cause of a vacant home fire late Wednesday night.
Quincy fire crews got the call for a fire at 2725 Lind just after 11:00 p.m.
It took about 10 minutes to get the fire under control.
Crews were on the scene until about 2:00 a.m.
The roof collapsed while they were battling the blaze.
The fire is considered incendiary in nature.
City crews later demolished the remains of the structure.
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