PHOTOS: Early Wednesday morning, firefighters were dispatched to a house fire in the East Washington/Dalrymple area that left three people displaced.
According to the Baton Rouge Fire Department, a vacant house within the 1200 block of Fig Street caught on fire and the flames spread to a neighboring home, damaging it and endangering the lives of its three occupants.
Firefighters say a neighbor alerted the occupants about the fire, helping them to escape before first responders arrived.
Shortly after 5 a.m., firefighters arrived and jumped into action, wrestling the blaze in a nearly 45-minute fight.
No one was injured during the incident. But the vacant home has been declared a total loss, and the neighboring home that was damaged lost 30 percent of its exterior. Fire also crept into its second-floor attic.