A FIRE damaged two neighbouring properties in Albion last Thursday morning, including a boarding house.
Smoke alarms alerted occupants of the rooming house and the residents of an adjoining home to the blaze, before Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) officers arrived on the scene in Clairmont St.
More than 20 firefighters attended the blaze along with seven fire trucks.
The fire started between the single-storey weatherboard homes, before spreading up the wall of one property, then the other abode’s wall and into each roof space.
The flames damaged one room and the roof space of each home.
One property was a boarding house with six occupants who were all safely evacuated from the fire after being alerted by smoke alarms and neighbours banging on the door.
There were no reported injuries and the cause of the fire is being investigated.
The family living in the other home was also woken by their smoke alarms.
