Firefighters with the Atmore Fire Department and the Poarch Fire Department quickly contained a fire inside a home that could have been much worse had it been allowed to burn any longer on Monday afternoon.

The units responded to a home located at 410 Peachtree Street at approximately 2 p.m. Monday and found smoke billowing from inside the structure. The fire was quickly squelched and Atmore Fire Chief Gerry McGhee said no one was injured during the incident.

“(The woman who lives here) was not home,” McGhee said. “She said she had just left to go to Masland (Carpets) to see her son.”

Damage to the home was minimal and McGhee said firefighters would continue to investigate in order to determine the fire’s origin.