Excerpts from the DailyHerald.com:

Firefighters on Monday were called at about 6:30 p.m. to a single-story, single-family home on Sparrow Road. They arrived to find one of the home’s residents attempting to extinguish an exterior fire with a garden hose. The fire spread into an attic area and one of the bedrooms. The home was deemed uninhabitable.

The fire is under investigation.