13 Providence residents displaced by fire on Plainfield Street

PROVIDENCE, RI -- Thirteen people were left homeless Sunday morning from a fire in a vacant store at 103 Plainfield Street.

Battalion Chief Clarence Cunha said no one was injured in the blaze that broke out at 6:10 a.m. The Red Cross was helping residents who lived in six apartments above the store find alternative housing. Their apartments incurred smoke damage, Cunha said.

The cause of the fire is under investigation. It took firefighters about 40 minutes to put out the fire.