A four-alarm fire that apparently started during plumbing work on a bathroom heavily damaged a Beltzhoover house Saturday morning.

The fire, which broke out around 10 a.m., occurred in the 800 block of Gearing Avenue.

No one was hurt, although one person was taken to a hospital as a precaution, said Assistant Fire Chief Jim Crawford.

Firefighters were able to contain the fire so that there was less damage to the homes on either side. Both of those homes appeared to have damage to the exterior walls near the site of the blaze.

Chief Crawford said the occupant of the home where the fire started and another person with some plumbing skills were soldering pipe in a bathroom in the house.

"It got into the wall," he said, and spread from there.

Chief Crawford said five people from the three houses got out safely. When firefighters arrived, Chief Crawford said, flames were coming from both sides of the house where the blaze started.

Chief Crawford said the cause of the fire appears to be accidental, but investigators were called to the scene.

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