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EAST ST. LOUIS –  Firefighters in the metro-east were busy Friday morning battling a vacant house fire.

The fire started just after midnight on North 40th Street in east st. Louis.

Witness tell FOX 2 neighbors saw the flames and called the fire department.

No injuries have been reported in this incident. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.