Flames damage house
WINFIELD TWP — The efforts of a homeowner to put out a fire Saturday failed, and he watched the fire damage the inside of his house on Keasey Road.
It was heavily damaged after noon Saturday.
Owner Dave Krason was at another of his houses across the street when he noticed smoke coming from the first house.
Krason said he rushed to that house and attempted to put out the fire in the living room with a fire extinguisher.
“It stopped, then it kept going,” Krason said of the fire.
He then switched to a garden hose to fight the blaze. “I couldn't stop it,” he said.
John Hartman, chief of the Winfield Volunteer Fire Department, said his firefighters put out the fire within minutes of arriving at the scene.
“It was all contained in the living room, but we do have heat and smoke damage throughout the entire house,” he said.
Hartman said at the scene that the cause of the fire was not yet known. No damage estimate was available then, but Hartman said it will be “significant.”
No one was injured.
Volunteer fire departments from Saxonburg, Herman and Buffalo Township and the Butler Ambulance Service responded.
