BATON ROUGE — An early Tuesday morning fire at a home along Convention Street is being investigated as arson, investigators with the Baton Rouge Fire Department said. 

The fire in the vacant home started around 4:42 a.m., with firefighters responding shortly afterwards. Crews arrived to find the home fully overtaken by flames, with the fire threatening a neighboring home.

Firefighters put out the fire by 5:13 a.m. and said it only caused superficial damage to the outside of the neighboring home.

The vacant home was ruled a total loss, but no one was inside the home at the time of the fire.