After a string of fires at vacant and blighted buildings, many are reaching out to the Terre Haute Fire Department with questions.
Some took to social media to weigh-in and mentioned vacant buildings as a majority of the fire department's workload.
News 10 spoke with an official to find out those answers.
Arson Investigator, Norm Loudermilk, tells us that out of all the fires the department handles, only 15% are related to vacant buildings.
"Most of our fires are in residential structures where people occupy them or maybe they weren't home," said Loudermilk. "They are not abandoned or vacant buildings."
He also clarified the reasoning for some of those vacant buildings.
"Just because it's vacant does not mean it's abandoned. It could be waiting for a student to move in, be re-modeled, or used by an arsonist to set fire," said Loudermilk.