UPDATED BREAKING NEWS: Fire engulfs Jasonville home Wednesday night
A Jasonville home was heavily damaged in a fire late Wednesday night.
Jasonville Fire Chief Harold Keller said the Rick Goggins residence on West Walnut Street (Rural Route 2) was engulfed in flames when they arrived on the scene.
The Jasonville Fire Department was dispatched to the scene at 11:17 p.m. Wright Township Volunteer Fire Department and Lewis Township Volunteer Fire Department provided mutual aid.
Keller said the modular home was "pretty well gutted" by the late night blaze.
"The whole top and inside was pretty well burned," Keller told the Greene County Daily World on Thursday morning.
Assistant fire chief Darren Sluder said the residence was about 75 percent involved when the first fire unit came on to the scene.
He said a neighbor noticed the flames and called the Greene County Sheriff's Department.
Sluder estimated the flames were at least 35 feet in the air at the height of the blaze. However, he said firefighters did a good job of knocking down the fire.
"We got a good knock down. To have such a knock down, I thought we did a good job with it," Sluder said. "All of the structure is standing, but it's gutted."
Both Keller and Sluder said the cause of the fire has not yet been determined, but they do not suspect foul play to be involved.
They hope to make a determination after the fire scene is surveyed during the daylight hours on Thursday.
The home occupants were not at home when the fire broke out, Sluder added.
Units from the fire departments were back on station at 2:16 a.m. Thursday, according to the sheriff's department log.
No injuries were reported.