Junction City firefighters responded to a structure fire Tuesday at 709 West 1st street. they found heavy smoke coming from a single story residential duplex. All three occupants were out and two of them had sustained minor injuries while exiting the structure through a bedroom window.  Fire Department personnel assessed and treated the occupants. Neither one required transport to the hospital. The other half of the duplex was unoccupied.

Firefighters entered through the back into a kitchen where they discovered a fire on the stove top and at ceiling level with smoke throughout the structure.  The fire was extinguished.