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January 09. 2015 6:32PM Fire guts house, but no one injured Firefighters knocked down a fire at 305 S. Second St., Talent, Friday afternoon. Photo by Thomas Moriarty A two-alarm fire gutted a two-story house at 305 S. Second St. in Talent on Friday afternoon. Nobody was injured, but Jackson County Fire District No. 5 Chief Darin Welburn said the house suffered extensive smoke and heat damage throughout. "About 1 p.m., a passerby noticed smoke around the windows, smoke around the eaves of the building," Welburn said, adding that by the time crews from Fire District 5 and Ashland Fire and Rescue arrived on scene, heavy smoke was pouring from the windows. It took firefighters about 15 minutes to knock the flames down. Welburn said the cause is still undetermined, but the fire appears to have started near the back of the house, possibly near the bathroom. Talent Police Chief Mike Moran said a woman who lived in the house wasn't home at the time of the fire, and emergency personnel didn't find any other people in the building. — Thomas Moriarty http://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150109/NEWS/150109845 © 2015 Copyright © 1995-2011 Crain Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use Privacy Statement -->