A fire burned through two boarded-up houses near downtown San Jose Tuesday, destroying both and sending up large columns of smoke that could be seen for miles.
The San Jose Fire Department said on social media that the fire was burning on the 100 block of N. 4th Street, one block east of St. James Park. The initial call was made at 11:42 a.m. and the fire went to a second alarm within minutes.One house at 152 N. 4th St. a single-story home, was completely consumed by flames that spread to the abandoned two-story house next door at 146 N. 4th St. Both houses became completely engulfed and eventually collapsed.
'These two houses that were destroyed had been vacant for some time, they've been chain-linked off, and we've had multiple fires in these structures, often as a result of some unhoused community members that are either doing warming fires or cooking fires,' said San Jose Fire Battalion Chief Robert Culbertson. 'In this particular case, we don't know exactly what started the fire, it's still under investigation. But this area certainly has a fire history like that.
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