ATLANTA — Fire investigators now consider a fire at a home on Coleman Street in southwest Atlanta suspicious.
They said the house is just one of several vacant homes to burn over the past few weeks in that neighborhood.
Firefighters told Channel 2's Audrey Washington they searched the home but didn't find anyone inside.
The home appears to be a total loss.
Washington drove around the Pittsburgh community and found a number of charred vacant homes, including another one on Coleman Street that just burned a few weeks ago.
Atlanta firefighters responded to this latest fire around 7 a.m. and said the home had no power or gas, just like the other homes that have burned.
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“It could be deemed suspicious due to some of the circumstances of there not being any power there, no gas, seven o’clock in the morning with no one really around, so yes,” said Sgt. Cortez Stafford with the Atlanta Fire Department.
Washington spoke to neighbor Cassandra Hardenman. She takes care of her parents at home and now fears the worst, since the flames broke out next door.
“That’s one of the first things that crossed my mind that, you know, it could leap," Hardenman said.
When Atlanta firefighters got to the home on Thursday morning, the flames were raging.
“Heavy fire in the front of the home, in the front exterior of the home,” Stafford said.
Although some of the fires that have happened in the area are suspicious, others were caused by cooking of negligence, according to officials.
Hardemann said that gives her some ease.
“Glad to know someone is on it, investigating it,” she said.
No one was hurt in the fire on Thursday morning.
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