(KLZA)-- Both the Falls City Volunteer Fire Department and Falls City Rural Fire Department responded to a house fire at 1223 Lane Street at 8:00 A.M. Wednesday morning.

The second story of the home owned by Joshua Darden was completely engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived on the scene.

The house is currently unoccupied. 

The fire was extinguished but the second floor of the home was severely damaged.

Firefighters remained on the scene in case the fire flared up under the metal roof on the home.