{"id":8085,"date":"2025-08-29T02:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8085"},"modified":"2025-08-29T02:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:18:20","slug":"rural-princeton-house-uninhabitable-after-tuesday-fire-shawlocal-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8085","title":{"rendered":"Rural Princeton house uninhabitable after Tuesday fire – shawlocal.com"},"content":{"rendered":"


Smoke billows from a home in the 1300 block of 2500 East Street on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, in rural Princeton. Several regional fire departments responded to the fire. <\/span>(Scott Anderson)
A rural Princeton<\/a> house fire Tuesday morning is believed to be accidental in nature.
The homeowners were on vacation at the time of the fire, Princeton Fire Chief Scott Etheridge said. There were no injuries, but the homeowners lost three pet cats in the fire.
The fire<\/a> in the 1300 block of 2500 East Street was fully involved with smoke coming from the front and the back at firefighters\u2019 arrival, Etheridge said. The home is uninhabitable from the damage caused by the fire. An official cause has not been determined as the Illinois State Fire Marshal\u2019s Office is continuing its investigation, but it is believed to be accidental originating from a bedroom, Etheridge said.
Nine different fire departments responded to the scene, including Bureau<\/a>, Wyanet, DePue<\/a>, Ladd<\/a>, Malden, Manlius, Sheffield, Spring Valley<\/a> and Walnut<\/a>. Peru<\/a> emergency medical services also responded, and the Dixon<\/a> and Mendota<\/a> fire departments helped cover the Princeton fire station during the response.
Derek Barichello is the news editor for The Times in Ottawa and NewsTribune in La Salle, part of Shaw Local News Network, covering La Salle, Bureau and Putnam counties. He covers local and breaking news in the areas of government, education, business and crime and courts, among others.<\/p>\n

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Smoke billows from a home in the 1300 block of 2500 East Street on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, in rural Princeton. Several regional fire departments responded to the fire. (Scott Anderson)A rural Princeton house fire Tuesday morning is believed to be accidental in nature.The homeowners were on vacation at the time of the fire, Princeton Fire Chief Scott Etheridge said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t