Improperly discarded smoking materials on the deck are blamed for a fire that damaged the kitchen at the Blandine House in Fond du Lac. Shortly before 6pm Monday firefighters were called to the scene on North Park Avenue to find smoke coming from a kitchen wall in the back of the building. The home was evacuated for about an hour and a half while crews overhauled the wall, basement ceiling and extinguished the fire. Nobody was injured.
