No one was inside, and no one was injured, after a fire ripped through a fraternity house at Northwest Missouri State in Maryville early Friday morning.

Some people leaving the Nortwest campus spotted sparks from the roof just after 4:00 a.m. at the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house on the eastern side of the campus.

University Police responded, then called in Maryville Public Safety for police and fire crews.  The fire burned a significant part of the backside of the house.

“There were not any occupants,”University Police director Clearance Greene said.  “From the exterior you could see a significant ammount of fire damage.”

An investigator from the State Fire Marshall’s office is on the way to the scene to investigate.  There is a possibility the fire started from two ignition points.