New Orleans firefighters doused a one-alarm fire Wednesday night at the Garden District house reportedly owned by Beyoncé and Jay-Z.
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Emergency officials said the fire was reported in 1500 block of Harmony Street at about 6:15 p.m. Twenty-two firefighters responded, containing it just after 7 p.m. No injuries were reported.
A residential smoke alarm alerted the fire department to the blaze. They had extinguished the fire by about 8:30 p.m., officials said.
"If they hadn't gotten it under control, it could have been worse," a spokesperson said.
The cause was not immediately known.
The three-story house has been owned since 2015 by Sugarcane Park LLC, which shares a mailing address with Parkwood Entertainment LLC — the management company owned by Beyoncé.
The structure was built in 1926 by the then-fledgling Westminster Presbyterian Church. It was later used as a ballet school.
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Neither Beyoncé nor her husband Jay-Z have confirmed that they own the home, which is blurred on Google Maps.
