The Kappa Sigma fraternity house at Radford University is destroyed after a massive fire and fire investigators are calling it arson.
Firefighters were called just before 11 p.m. Tuesday to the house on the corner of First and Clement Streets, less than a block from campus.
No one was living in the house. No one was hurt.
When firefighters arrived they say fire was coming from three windows on the second floor.
Chief Lee Simpkins with the Radford Fire Department tells WSLS that the fire was intentionally set. “It definitely started inside, it definitely started on the second floor, and it definitely had help, because there’s no electricity in the building and it’s been vacated for several weeks.”
Simpkins says this is not the first time someone has tried to burn the building down, “They tried to set it on fire on Thursday night on the first floor but we were able to put it out from the doorway.”
Firefighters battled the flames from outside the building because “it was just too dangerous to send somebody in a vacant building when there’s absolutely no use to,” said Chief Simpkins.
As far as the arson investigation, the chief says they are not going to look for an exact cause. “We do know it was set, but as far as being able to determine how it was set is not going to be of any benefit.”
They are asking for anyone who saw someone go in or out of the building to call police.
In the meantime, Simpkins says they are going to keep an eye on the other two fraternity houses on that street.
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