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| South
Boundary fire chief Tony Rohrwasser mans
the hose and directs firefighters
working to put out a house fire on Brown
Creek Road Saturday morning. |
A family who'd only moved in last year lost
their Brown Creek Road home to fire this
morning. The family was away on a snowmobiling
trip and no one was at home when the fire broke
out, however, a neighbor said that there were
two Pomeranians in the house, neither apparently
made it out.
The fire was reported at
8:40 a.m. when a passerby noticed smoke coming
from the roof of the home. Firefighters from the
South Boundary and Paradise Valley Fire
Districts responded, and were slowed in their
efforts to extinguish the blaze by a gas leak.
By the time the gas was shut off, flames had
broken through the roof of the structure and the
attic was fully involved.
Neighbors said the home was
being rented by Jerry Lockman, who is on
disability, his wife, Teresa, who works at
Schweitzer Mountain, and several children. They
said the family had just moved in last year, and
this was their first winter in the home.
It appears firefighters
will be able to
save much of the structure, but it's likely the
home and its contents were completely destroyed.
Cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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