NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - An early morning fire ripped through an empty University of Oklahoma fraternity house Friday, but no injuries were reported.
There was no one living in the Delta Tau Delta house when the blaze erupted because students were sent home in March due to the coronavirus.
“When we got there there were flames through the roof,” said Norman’s Deputy Fire Chief Mike Wilson. “There was a pretty significant lightning storm going on. That could have been the culprit.”
About half of the sprawling, one-story home was destroyed, but Wilson said a firewall protected the west half of the structure.
Wilson said firefighters were already busy working an attic fire on a large home on the city’s west side when the call came in on the fraternity house fire, and that fire departments sent crews from Moore and Little Axe to assist.
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