A home in the 5300 block of Mira Loma Circle caught fire early Wednesday morning.
/ FOX21: Mike Duran
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- It took firefighters one hour to get the house fire on the 5300 hundred block of Mira Loma Circle under control. The vacant home is in the process of being remodeled and sold after an accidental fire back in December.
"The young man that was living there, they had a wood burning stove in the basement and it caught on fire. He was asleep and the dog woke him up. The dog saved his life, but they remodeled it completely," Earl Brown, a neighbor, said.
Wednesday morning's 911 call means this is the second time the home has been on fire in seven months. This time investigators think it was intentional, and they're looking into the possibility that the home was broken into.
"The door could have been blow out from something that happened in the fire or pried open. We don't know, that is part of the investigation," Sunny Smaldino with the Colorado Springs Fire Department said.
Firefighters said the fire had been burning some time before they got the call. Crews arrived to a giant hole on the main floor and flames shooting through the roof. The damage is estimated at $50,000.
"[My neighbor's] son called it in, and he said flames were shooting through the roof about 10 feet high. We were lucky there wasn't any wind," Brown said.
Investigators have been collecting smoke samples and checking for odors, information that's going to be sent to a lab in Denver.
The Colorado Springs Fire Department is estimating it'll take 6-8 months before they get their results.
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