Vacant houses catch fire overnight

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Firefighters are trying to figure out how a fire on Buffalo’s east side started.
Two homes on Watson St. caught fire around 12:45 a.m. The flames burst through the homes’ roofs.
According to fire officials, there were some complications in containing the flames.
“We were hampered initially,” Buffalo Fire Department Division Chief Peter Kertzie said. “We had power lines that had burned down and fallen in the street, so we had to watc