Durango Fire Protection District firefighters access the roof of the burning house with the use of a ladder truck on Tuesday in the Edgemont subdivision, located northeast of Durango. The residents evacuated, and nobody was hurt.
Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Durango Fire Protection District firefighters access the roof of a burning house with the use of a ladder truck on Tuesday in the Edgemont subdivision, northeast of Durango.
Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Firefighters had to cut a hole in the roof to allow smoke and gases to escape during a fire in the Edgemont subdivision Tuesday afternoon, Durango Fire Protection Fire Chief Dan Noonan said. The residents likely will be displaced for a while, and a back portion of the home near the chimney will have to be rebuilt, Noonan said.
Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Residents were home but escaped unharmed from a house fire at 223 El Diente Drive, off of Florida Road (County Road 240), said Durango Fire Protection District Fire Marshal Karola Hanks. Firefighters were forced to cut a hole in the roof to allow gases to escape.
Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Residents were unhurt, but a fire Tuesday afternoon at a two-story home in the Edgemont subdivision did burn some building materials around the chimney. The Durango Fire Protection District is investigating.
Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Fire damaged a house Tuesday afternoon in the Edgemont Ranch subdivision, a few miles northeast of Durango.
The fire was reported about 2:50 p.m. at 223 El Diente Drive in the 5200 block of Florida Road (County Road 240), Fire Marshal Karola Hanks said.
Residents were at home, but no one was injured in the fire, Fire Chief Dan Noonan said.
The fire destroyed building materials around the chimney on both floors in the two-story home.
Firefighters had to cut a hole in the roof to allow smoke and gases to escape, he said.
Before firefighters left the scene, they sealed the hole with plastic to protect the house’s interior.
The residents likely will be displaced for a while, and a back portion of the home near the chimney likely will have to be rebuilt, he said.
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