ROCKINGHAM — Another vacant home in one community burned to the ground Monday afternoon.
The East Rockingham Fire Department was called around 2:30 p.m. to a fire on Central Avenue, behind Place of Grace Campus, according to Chief Bill Bayless.
He said the fire was fully involved by the time crews arrived and it burned to the foundation.
Bayless added that the county had been trying to contact the property owner(s) to clean it up.
This is at least the fourth vacant home in East Rockingham crews have responded to within the past two months.
On May 24, a mobile home on Sixth Street Safie was a total loss, while a small fire was started in the basement of a house on School Street. ERFD responded again to the latter location on June 7.
Another abandoned home on Mill Road finally burned July 11 after the department responded for a third time. A small hole was burned in the floor on May 29 and a mattress that had been brought into the house was burned June 27.
The Rockingham Fire Department also led the fight against a blaze at the office of the former Sara Lee plant on Mill Road last Friday.
