Ammo inside burning home shoots out and injures fire chief

HINESBURG, VT (AP) — Officials say a fire chief suffered a minor injury when ammunition inside a burning home shot out and hit him.

WCAX-TV reports that firefighters responded to the fire in Hinesburg, Vermont, shortly after 3:30 p.m. on Saturday.

The ammunition that caught fire and shot out of the house delayed crews from putting the fire out.

The fire also damaged a neighboring home.

Investigators believe that cigarette butts found in pine needles under pine shrub sparked the fire.