Mount Vernon house fire 12/3/12

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Mount Vernon house fire quickly extinguished

8:58 AM, Dec 3, 2012

MOUNT VERNON — City firefighters quickly put out a fire in a 2 1/2-story house this morning, officials said.

The one-alarm fire was reported about 8 a.m. on the third floor of 241 N. Terrace Ave., Deputy Fire Commissioner Noah Lighty said.

No residents or firefighters were injured.

The fire was confined to the third floor and put out before 8:30 a.m., Lighty said.

"It was a quick stop," the commissioner said.

Firefighters were doing checking the walls to make sure no fire lingered, Lighty said.

How the fire started was not immediately known.