St. Charles Home Sustained $175,000 Damage in Late Wednesday Night Fire

Residents near a home in the 2900 block of Royal Fox Drive reported hearing an explosion late Wednesday night. St. Charles Fire Department Chief Joe Schelstreet said that it’s definately possible that residents heard what sounded like explosions.

“It’s not unusual to have explosions or loud pipping noises especially when vehciles are involved,” he said. “When anything that is pressurized once it vents forcible, you can have certainly explosions.”

The attached garage housed two vehicles at the time of the fire. Both were completely destroyed. That is part of the reason the dollar loss is so high.

“In addition to the damage to the structure there were two vehicles that were destroyed and there was quite a bit of content in the garage,” he said.

Just after 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, one of the residents of the home went out to the garage to do some work and discovered the fire. There were five family members home at the time of the fire and they all evacuated.

No one was injured.

The home is currently uninhabitable, but Schelstreet said the residents have already begun working on the home.

The cause of the fire is not yet known.

“Right now, it’s under investigation, but we don’t thinks its suspicious at all,” Schelstreet said.