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April 30, 2005
 
Rapidly Spreading Fire Guts Empty House During Deluge
 
by Tony Rutherford
Huntington News Network Writer
 
Huntington (HNN) – Rain plummeted throughout Huntington Friday night, April 29, 2005, but a house across from the Marsteller Law Offices, 622 Seventh Street, went up in a ball of flames.
 
Mike Holbrook, who lives in the Prichard Building and who works as a sports writer for HNN, heard the first siren about 9:15 p.m. He walked over to his window and "could see the whole house was totally in a huge ball of flames." According to Holbrook, the Huntington Fire Department brought it under control in about ten minutes, but it would continually "flare up."

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The apparently empty structure appeared to have been extensively damaged. One anonymous source told HNN that he saw two impaired individuals dropped off at the location a few hours earlier.
 
At 1:00 a.m., Lt. Webb, Huntington Fire Marshall, and another fireman were searching the inside the burnt out structure using flashlights to particularly examine the building's floor. Webb would not confirm that the fire had a suspicious origin, but he did indicate that it was "under investigation."