BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge firefighters worked to put out a fire on Aster Street near Nicholson Drive on Friday.

Firefighters and other emergency officials responded to the scene just after 3 p.m. The blaze overtook the roof of a house and Baton Rouge Fire worked to contain it. 

Baton Rouge EMS said that the fire was in an abandoned house and no injuries were reported.

WBRZ has reached out to Baton Rouge Fire for more information and will update this story as it develops.