Tuesday - December 15: The home of the Danny Dye family at 1023 Commerce in Wellsville suffered an apparent electrical fire Tuesday afternoon. Luckily with the quick response of both the WFD and the Volunteer Fire Dept. major damage to the structure was avoided. The fire was contained to the attic area of the house. We don't know what the inside of the attic looked like but there was no visible flames on the outside of the building. All that was seen from the street was smoke.
According to newspaper reports the fire was reported at 12:46 P.M. and fire fighters cleared the scene by 3:33. Six Wellsville fire fighters responded with help from our friends from Highlandtown. Life Team Ambulance had two units on hand. No injuries were reported.
Also according to newspaper accounts both Mr. & Mrs. Dye were at work and their children were in school. Sources tell me the Dye family are staying with other family members until the house is released and electrical repairs can be made. The living quarters did have some smoke and water damage.
Wellsville is very fortunate. Currently there are only two fire fighters on the Village payroll. Five of those six firefighters that responded to the fire were members of the Volunteer Fire Dept. We were at the scene fairly quick and it wasn't long afterwards that Highlandtown VFD rolled in to offer their assistance.
Our condolences to the Dye family and a B I G hearty thank you to all that responded. It was a job well done.
ole nib
6 comments:
This is just a reminder, please everybody put in smoke detectors. You would be so much safer.
Just to clarify something....... BOTH of the full time firemen responded to the fire, one of them remained on the desk, someone has to stay on station in the event there is another fire or emergency.
That's very true but it doesn't alter the fact that there are only two - I repeat - two - full time firemen. I commend both. They're both good men.
nib
This fire is proof unfortunately exactly why we need 4 full time fireman. I hope the residents in the village call our council members and the mayor and remind them that is why the levie was passed. The good thing about this was, no one was hurt. How important are we as residents in Wellsville.
I want to thank the Full time Firemen and also the volunteer fire dept and also a grateful thank you to the guy who went past the house and noticed the house was on fire...They all did a spectacular job..We were very lucky ....Its never easy to be living with family members and not at your own house especially during the holidays and i am very lucky to have a wonderful family and so many friends that have came to see how i was.....THANK YOU EVERYONE AND MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
Kerry Dye and Family
a smoke detector would have been a moot point in this case since no one was home
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