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House fire
under investigation
BY ALLYSON BOND
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
RANDOLPH COUNTY – A suspicious house fire outside of the High Point city limits
is still under investigation.
About 4 a.m. on Oct. 5, the High Point Fire Department responded to a
call concerning a fire at the 1037
Old Thomasville Road residence, near Eastward Avenue
and beside Christ Gospel Baptist C h u rch .
According to Assistant Fire Chief Mike Witcher
with the Guil-Rand Fire Department, the department
was called once it was determined the fire was outside of High Point.
The departments worked together to put the blaze out.
“We got the fire out quick-ly,” Witcher said, adding the house was unoccupied at the
time. A neighbor told officials a man named Devin Ruff owned the house.
According to Witcher, the fire started “in
the front portion of the house.”
The State Bureau of Investigations and the Randolph County
fire marshal were called in to investigate. Witcher
said the house was a total loss.
“We performed the initial investigation. We called in the fire marshal
to find out the cause,” Witcher said, adding that a
fire does not necessarily have to be suspicious for the department to call.
Fire marshal investigator Wendall Whately could not comment on the status fire.
“All I can say is that it is under investigation,” Whately
said
abond@hpe.com |888-3515
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