ALUM CREEK, W.Va. -- An Alum Creek man set his home on fire, then shot himself in the head on Sproul Road shortly before noon Wednesday.

George Ingram, who lived in a doublewide mobile home in Alum Creek, set his home on fire, then walked out into his yard and shot himself about 75 feet from the front of his home, authorities said.

No one else was home at the time of the fire.

Ingram and his wife had a history of domestic problems, but it was unclear what caused him to set fire to his home and take his own life, according to Lt. Bryan Stover with the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department.

Volunteer Firefighters from Alum Creek reached the scene at 12:01 p.m., but Ingram was already dead.

"With his injuries, it was immediate," said Jim Oldaker, chief of the Alum Creek Volunteer Fire Department.

The house was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived and it took three departments almost an hour and a half to extinguish it, he said.

"There is a water supply issue out there," Oldaker said. "The closest fire hydrant is two miles up the road. We had to call in neighboring departments to do a tanker shuttle to the hydrants,"

Each tanker holds several thousand gallons of water, but a department will need tens of thousands of gallons to put out a house that's fully involved, Oldaker said.

"We can't carry enough water to put that type of fire out," he said.

Authorities said they are still trying to figure out what Ingram used to set the fire.

ALUM CREEK, W.Va. -- An Alum Creek man set his home on fire, then shot himself in the head on Sproul Road shortly before noon Wednesday.

George Ingram, who lived in a doublewide mobile home in Alum Creek, set his home on fire, then walked out into his yard and shot himself about 75 feet from the front of his home, authorities said.

No one else was home at the time of the fire.

Ingram and his wife had a history of domestic problems, but it was unclear what caused him to set fire to his home and take his own life, according to Lt. Bryan Stover with the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department.

Volunteer Firefighters from Alum Creek reached the scene at 12:01 p.m., but Ingram was already dead.

"With his injuries, it was immediate," said Jim Oldaker, chief of the Alum Creek Volunteer Fire Department.

The house was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived and it took three departments almost an hour and a half to extinguish it, he said.

"There is a water supply issue out there," Oldaker said. "The closest fire hydrant is two miles up the road. We had to call in neighboring departments to do a tanker shuttle to the hydrants,"

Each tanker holds several thousand gallons of water, but a department will need tens of thousands of gallons to put out a house that's fully involved, Oldaker said.

"We can't carry enough water to put that type of fire out," he said.

Authorities said they are still trying to figure out what Ingram used to set the fire.