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Posted: **Tue Jan 02, 2018 1:05 pm**

What it looks like now is above

Posted: **Tue Jan 02, 2018 2:30 pm**

Thank God no one was up there. What was the cause, faulty wiring, or something?

Posted: **Tue Jan 02, 2018 4:47 pm**

Early Monday they called the electric company and complained about the lights flickering and they turned the power off to the upstairs apartment. Looking at the place now it look like it might have started on the far side from me. I would say everything was lost. Can't get up or down the alley for all the junk in the alley.

Fire department had problems getting water pressure to fight it.

Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:38 am**

Wow just now seen this. That's weird a fire started with the power off up there, wonder if somebody was using a heater or something up there for light and heat? Could have started also while power was still one and smoldered for awhile until it took off. Did your house sustain any damage?

Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2018 5:17 am**

cbolt wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:38 am Wow just now seen this. That's weird a fire started with the power off up there, wonder if somebody was using a heater or something up there for light and heat? Could have started also while power was still one and smoldered for awhile until it took off. Did your house sustain any damage?

No damage to mine, but the house on the other side had the siding melted. Samething happened to it 20 years ago when the same house caught fire.

Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2018 10:43 am**

The gap from the Alley helped that one house out. If the house setting close next to it had insurance they will replace the siding and anything damaged from it. Hope the people in the house that caught fire had some kinda insurance to replace belongings. Is that a rental, Noreply? Mentioned people living up and down. When I rented a place on 3rd St long ago my landlord suggested I carry it. Hope they had it if they was renters there. Good to have, get most of your stuff back.

Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2018 5:19 pm**

TRENCHFOOT wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2018 10:43 am The gap from the Alley helped that one house out. If the house setting close next to it had insurance they will replace the siding and anything damaged from it. Hope the people in the house that caught fire had some kinda insurance to replace belongings. Is that a rental, Noreply? Mentioned people living up and down. When I rented a place on 3rd St long ago my landlord suggested I carry it. Hope they had it if they was renters there. Good to have, get most of your stuff back.

I live across the alley. My dog woke me up and the bright light that was coming in the window was the flames about 20 feet out my bedroom. The family that lives on the other side has never replaced the melted siding from the same house that caught fire around 20 years ago. The house that burt is owned by a couple that lives in Lancaster. The wife, I was told, is a lawyer up there. The house was taped off this morning. Still haven't cleaned the alley up so people can drive back it. I have to come in from the back alley from Tansky's. The guy next door came over to thank me for waking him up and my dog was beside me and I told him he could thank this little guy for waking me.

Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2018 7:44 pm**

noreply66 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2018 5:19 pm
TRENCHFOOT wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2018 10:43 am The gap from the Alley helped that one house out. If the house setting close next to it had insurance they will replace the siding and anything damaged from it. Hope the people in the house that caught fire had some kinda insurance to replace belongings. Is that a rental, Noreply? Mentioned people living up and down. When I rented a place on 3rd St long ago my landlord suggested I carry it. Hope they had it if they was renters there. Good to have, get most of your stuff back.
I live across the alley. My dog woke me up and the bright light that was coming in the window was the flames about 20 feet out my bedroom. The family that lives on the other side has never replaced the melted siding from the same house that caught fire around 20 years ago. The house that burt is owned by a couple that lives in Lancaster. The wife, I was told, is a lawyer up there. The house was taped off this morning. Still haven't cleaned the alley up so people can drive back it. I have to come in from the back alley from Tansky's. The guy next door came over to thank me for waking him up and my dog was beside me and I told him he could thank this little guy for waking me.

Good dog. Give him a hug for me too. Pets can be amazing and smart plus know when something is wrong. Is the house savable? I would have to say no. Too much after damage downstairs from water and smoke. Plus the structure has had to be weakened quite a bit.

Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2018 10:12 pm**

The structure didn't look the best after the fix up from the last fire. Roof was bowed in places and a lot was hid from siding. I know the guy that put a new roof on the house about 6 years ago and he said things were just not stable. The guy that owned the house never wanted to put too much money into it.

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2018 12:36 pm**

Local rag said it was caused by an electrical issue.

Posted: **Thu Jan 11, 2018 1:22 pm**

Talked to the Fire Marshall today and this was a electric problem in the attic.

Some info I was told earlier was not true.

Posted: **Sun Jan 14, 2018 7:00 pm**

Thank God you woke them up. Did they have smoke detectors?
Sidenote: Smoke rises right? So in a situation like that with the fire starting upstairs would a smoke detector downstairs have helped?

Posted: **Mon Jan 15, 2018 4:50 am**

Don't know about the detectors. With no one home upstairs it may not have helped the people downstairs. One big thing was the sub zero weather hurting the firemen from getting good water pressure.

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 5:14 pm**

House being torn down....2/28/18

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 5:16 pm**

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Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 5:18 pm**

part of the old house fell against the other house here

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 5:18 pm**

In this picture you can see where it took the siding off the other house. The siding was melted from the fire so no damage.

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 5:19 pm**

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 5:20 pm**

Neighbor watching from his roof top. He was in his back yard but after the piece hit his house he went up on the roof.

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