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Vacant house a total loss following major fire; adjacent homes damaged

A fire tore through a Uniontown home and spread to another early Saturday morning.

The fire started inside the residence on West Berkeley Street near Mill Street in Fayette County around 4 a.m. Saturday.

Uniontown police said the house has “extensive damage,” and that multiple people were inside one of the homes affected when the fire began.

Police did say the house where the fire started was vacant, and that house is a total loss.

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The fire posed a danger to the adjacent houses on each side of the vacant home.

Everyone in those houses made it out safely, police said.

The fire caused mostly exterior damage to those houses, police said.

Firefighters had to return to the area around 10:30 a.m. after the fire rekindled, police said.

It is unclear whether anyone was injured due to the fire.