Smoke detectors alert sleeping Shen. child to kitchen fire
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL - Smoke is ventilated from a home at 323 West Cherry Street on May 25, 2020.
SHENANDOAH – Shenandoah Fire Marshal Rick Examitas credited smoke alarms with saving a child’s life after a kitchen fire on West Cherry Street Monday afternoon.
Firefighters were called to 323 West Cherry Street around 3:45pm Monday for a reported house fire.
Shenandoah Police Patrolman William Moyer was among the first to arrive on scene, finding a male outside the house and smoke throughout the living room area of the home, he said.
The fire was then upgraded to a working fire, and, moments later, crews from Shenandoah’s Columbia Hose and Rescue Hook and Ladder fire companies arrived on scene.
Columbia firefighters stretched a hand line and knocked down the fire in short order.
Shenandoah Fire Marshal Rick Examitas said the fire was accidental, a culinary incident, and the damage was contained to the kitchen area.
“One person was inside. The young child was upstairs sleeping,” Examitas said. “Smoke alarms activated, woke him up, and he came out of the residence, called mom, and a neighbor called 911.”
He said no injuries were reported, and he credited smoke detectors with saving the child’s life.
Firefighters remained on scene for about an hour.
Responding were all five Shenandoah fire companies, as well as Mahanoy City’s West End, Frackville’s Goodwill, and Shenandoah Ambulance.
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