Fire Causes Minor Damage to Johnson City Home

Johnson City firefighters extinguished an early-morning blaze in a single-family home on the South Side of the village.

Fire marshal Bob Blakeslee said the call at 110 Bernice Street came in around 6 a.m. Friday.

Blakeslee said a small fire broke out in a bedroom after a sunlamp fell into a pile of clothes near a laundry basket.

The fire marshal said a resident told firefighters he detected an odor of something burning around 4 a.m. but was unable to discover the source of the problem.

When the man discovered the fire a couple of hours later, he used a dry chemical extinguisher to knock it down. Firefighters finished extinguishing the blaze.

Blakeslee said no injuries were reported as a result of the fire. He said four people were in the home at the time of the blaze.

The fire caused some minor smoke damage but no structural damage to the house.

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