PEORIA, Ill. – Another Peoria home has suffered damage from a fire ruled to be arson.
This one happened early Sunday morning near Westmoreland and Krause in South Peoria.
Crews say when they arrived around 2:45 a.m., fire was showing on an exterior wall, believing it was started that way intentionally.
Eight people — five of whom were children — were able to escape safely.
The fire was put out in about 20 minutes, and did $20,000 in damage.
No one was hurt.
