TV 21 WFMJ-NBC 1.10.2001

YOUNGSTOWN- A house on Youngstown’s north side went up in flames early Wednesday morning. The house located on Gypsy Lane next to the Jewish Community Center. Heavy smoke was pouring from the structure when firefighters arrived. No one was inside the home at the time of the blaze.

There is no word yet on what caused the fire.

(Personal Note: I just happened to coming home from work at 3am when I heard the sirens. I drove around where I thought I had heard them, hoping to get several pictures for the site. I drove all around the upper-North Side and the high Briar Hill area and never found the fire. Only later did I learn that I had seen the reflection of the lights from the trucks, which I had dismissed because I saw them from so far away. The fire was two blocks from my house. Not as far as the mile I had driven looking for it. )