By the time firefighters arrived, Chief Pullar said, the flames were too intense to allow entry to the house.
Reporters were not allowed entry to the neighborhood, where some 130,000 of Medellín's 2.5 million residents live.
Only general admission tickets, at $125, are available; they allow entry to the event at 8 p.m.
Despite the strong opposition of General Turgidson, the Soviet ambassador, Alexi de Sadesky, is allowed entry to the War Room in the hopes of defusing the crisis.
The debate revealed that about 30,000 suspicious signatures were removed from a separate, smaller petition saying Trump should be allowed entry to the UK.
Meanwhile, European and many other Asian émigrés were typically allowed entry to the U.S. after just a few hours or days.
"I think we should really be worried about another refugee crisis," said Yasir Imad, an Iraqi who was recently allowed entry to the United States after living in Syria for almost four years.
Closer to the Games, there are likely to be non-event tickets, which will allow entry to the park (where Henman Hill-style big screens will relay the action) and confer pole position to pick up tickets that will be recycled via a Wimbledon-type re-entry system.
With the Democratic National Convention opening on Monday, some lawmakers and senior party officials said their offices and political operations were receiving significantly fewer of the passes that will allow entry to the Pepsi Center and access to the floor than they have received for past conventions.
But as the landlord is permitted to establish reasonable security protocols for the safety of the residents, there may have been a good-faith basis to the owner's refusal to allow entry to the guest, who had not been preapproved.
