NEWPORT, Vt. (WCAX) – All residents are safe after a structure fire in the Northeast Kingdom overnight.
Officials say the fire happened at a home on Vermont Route 100 in Newport, just before 1:00 a.m. Saturday.
When crews arrived they found a single-family home fully engulfed in flames. They say everyone was able to make it out safely, but residents were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Vermont Route 100 was closed between Niles Road and Route 14 for several hours, but is now reopened.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.