A vacant house fire shut down a neighborhood street early Tuesday morning.

It happened at around 12:30 a.m. in the 800 block of St. Margaret Street in Chillicothe.

Medics and firefighters were dispatched to the house as flames were shooting outside the front porch and windows. No one was inside the house, which is listed as vacant, according to officials.

The cause of the fire was not immediately released.

Derek Myers is the editor-in-chief of the Guardian.