RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) -- Residents escaped a south Raleigh house fire Tuesday night after their neighbor alerted them to the active blaze, officials said.

The fire broke out just before 9:50 p.m. at a house in the 2200 block of Lyndhurst Drive, between Cross Link and Sanderford roads just south of Rock Quarry Road, Raleigh Fire Department officials said.

When crews arrived at the home, the fire was burning in the carport and the roof of the house, Raleigh Fire Division Chief Preston Gaster told CBS 17.

It took 35 firefighters about 20 minutes to bring the blaze under control.

No one was injured in the fire, Gaster said.

A neighbor first spotted the blaze and alerted the people -- one or possibly two residents -- inside the house about the fire, Gaster said.

Residents were out of the h

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