Crews were on the scene Saturday afternoon after a recently vacated home caught fire in Westmoreland County.
Westmoreland County dispatchers confirmed to Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 that crews were called to the 2000 block of Kenneth Avenue in Arnold for reports of a fire.
We’re told the fire had been upgraded to a 2-alarm and that officials were at the scene around 3:30 p.m.
Photos from the scene showed large amounts of smoke and debris coming from the front of the home due to the intensity of the flames.
Our news partners at the Trib later reported that it took 45 minutes for departments from Westmoreland and Allegheny counties to get the fire under control.
Neighbors told the Trib a woman and her son had moved out of the house two weeks before the fire, also saying work was being done to the house within recent days.
The Trib said no injuries had been reported and no nearby homes sustained damage.
A cause of the fire remains unclear.
This is a developing story.
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