A Parkersburg family escaped safely after a fire damaged their home on 31st Street early Tuesday morning. The Wood County 911 Center says at 4:26 a.m. Tuesday, the Parkersburg Fire Department responded to a front porch fire at a home on the corner of 31st Street and Birch Street in Parkersburg. Everyone inside the home escaped safely and no one was injured. Firefighters extinguished the blaze by 4:50 a.m. The cause of the fire is still being investigated.