Officials are investigating a fire that destroyed an abandoned house in East Providence on Wednesday.
The house is located on the property of Old Leonardo’s Farm on Wampanoag Trail. The fire was reported at about 5:45 p.m. and the smoke plume could be seen from the other side of the bay in Warwick and Cranston.
“It’s an abandoned house, approximately 1,800 square feet of space,” East Providence Fire Chief Oscar Elmasian said. “We were compromised because the entrance to the abandoned property has been blocked by concrete blocks, so companies had to handle our water feed from Wampanoag Trail up the hill so everything was done by hand.”
Elmasian said when firefighters arrived on scene, the house was engulfed in flames, but they were able to knock the main body of the fire down.