Sirens screamed through the fan and museum district last night as a cloud of smoke poured from the first floor of a home on the 2500 block of Kensington Ave.  At 10:22 PM Richmond emergency teams received a call for a house fire near the intersection of Kensington Ave and Robinson St.

According to Lt. Shawn Jones with the Richmond Fire Department crews found a "small amount of fire in the basement" and were able to vanquish its flames with fire extinguishers from their trucks. Firefighters had the blaze under control by 10:37 pm however a Hazardous Materials team was later brought in to clean up spilled gasoline in the structure's basement.