POCATELLO — A fire near the Idaho State University campus that caused significant damage to a group home for disabled adults on Sunday night rekindled on Monday morning.

The fire was reported around 7:50 p.m. at the residence operated by H.A.S. Inc. in the 1400 block of East Lander Street. Five to 10 disabled adults lived in the home and they were all able to safely evacuate before firefighters arrived.

Firefighters had the blaze under control by around 8:50 p.m. Shortly after 6:30 a.m. on Monday morning, Battalion Chief Jeremy Pincock said a neighbor noticed smoke building up inside of the home and made an emergency call.

Pincock said the cause of the fire is under investigation, but it appears the culprit was electrical wiring in the attic. The attic area is where most of the damage occurred.

Pincock said some hot spots began to smolder again in the attic on Monday morning. Firefighters had the new hot spots extinguished by about 9:30 a.m. and were sucking redwood insulation from the attic with a giant hose.

Pincock said the firefighters doused the hot spots with foam before hand removing insulation from a few feet surrounding the hot spots.

The disabled adults who lived there had to be transferred to other residences operated by the provider.

“There’s definitely some significant damage,” Pincock said. “It will be a while before it’s habitable again.”

The flames did not spread to any of the other houses in the neighborhood.

East Lander Street was temporarily shut down because of the fire.

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