Two mobile homes in Buffalo Township were heavily damaged by a fire that spread from a shed Thursday night, June 12.

There are no reported injuries, but American Red Cross was contacted to provide assistance to the displaced residents. The fire was reported at 9:46 p.m.

Township police were first to arrive at the scene on Shaner Drive and reported a shed was burning and the fire was spreading to a mobile home, said Matt Cypher, chief of the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company.

“When I got there, the shed was fully involved, and the fire was extending to two mobile homes and an adjacent shed,” Cypher said.

One of the mobile homes is on Shaner Drive and other is on Boyd Drive. The shed, where the fire appeared to have started, is between the two lots. A second shed adjacent to one of the sheds also caught fire, he said.

The fire approached a bank of gas meters for four homes, but firefighters stopped the fire before it reached the meters, he said.

“We were able to contain it, so it didn’t cause any damage (to the meters). We got them shut off,” Cypher said.

Five residents and a pet dog were displaced by the fire at the Shaner Drive home and an elderly women and her two cats were displaced by the fire at the Boyd Drive home, he said.

Both homes were heavily damaged, but firefighters managed to save enough of the homes to allow some contents to be salvaged, he said.

Fire crews remained at the scene for about three-and-a-half hours. The Sarver, Saxonburg and Herman volunteer fire companies and the Freeport Volunteer Fire Department from Armstrong County also responded to the fire.