DONEGAL TWP — Firefighters who were already in the same neighborhood Monday afternoon prevented a blaze from igniting at a home on Jackson Lane.

Assistant Chief Scott Rattigan of the East Butler Volunteer Fire Department said he and others about 12:15 p.m. who were at the scene of a fire on Gameland Road spotted the smoke coming from 107 Jackson Lane.

“We looked up and saw it,” Rattigan said.

He said heat from a pellet stove on the basement level of the house melted some siding and charred a portion of the exterior.

Rattigan estimated damages at $10,000.

The home's occupants were not there, and firefighters did not know who lived there.

NEW SEWICKLEY TWP, BEAVER COUNTY — Police have identified the woman who died in an accident Saturday morning along Freedom Crider Road as Mary Jane Hyre.The accident was just over the Butler County line.Police on Monday said Hyre, 62, of Aliquippa was driving east on the road about 6:30 a.m. when she was struck head-on by a vehicle driven by John Thomas Mayo.Mayo's vehicle drifted over the center line before hitting Hyre's car, according to New Sewickley Chief Ronald Leindecker,The chief said Mayo is still in a Pittsburgh-area hospital.The state police are investigating the accident.