Tents burned at homeless camp near downtown Columbus

A fire at a homeless camp near downtown Columbus generated a large amount of smoke Sunday but no one was injured.

According to the Columbus Fire Department, firefighters were called to the area behind the Strive Center in the 1000 block of 2nd Street Sunday afternoon on reports of the smoke. They discovered some tents on fire in a homeless camp in the woods along Haw Creek.

The fire was extinguished and the cause of the fire is under investigation.