fire-dept

City fire crews responded to numerous calls over the long weekend, including two structure fires.

Around 2:30 am yesterday (Monday), crews were dispatched to a nine-unit rooming house on the 500 block of First Avenue East.

Flames and smoke were visible with the rear of the structure fully involved.

Damages are said to be substantial.

Meantime, tenants from a five-unit apartment complex on the 400 block of Lakeshore Drive are also displaced after a fire in one of the units on Saturday around noon.

Damages there are said to be between $50,000 and $100,000.

There were no injuries in either fire.

Officials are investigating the cause of both.