Kitchen fire damages Tamaqua apartment
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL - Firefighters at the scene of an apartment fire at 210 West Broad Street in Tamaqua.
TAMAQUA – A woman, child, and pets are displaced and their apartment’s kitchen destroyed after an early morning fire here Monday morning.
Firefighters were called to 210 West Broad Street in the borough around 1:30am for a reported fire.
Crews arrived to find smoke coming from the eaves of the porch roof, and flames coming from a rear first floor window.
Tamaqua Fire Chief Jim Connelly said no one was injured in the fire, which was brought under control in about half an hour.
He said the fire started on the stove of the first floor apartment, and a second floor apartment tenant was alerted to the fire by their smoke detectors. That tenant then alerted the first floor tenants.
The first floor apartment sustained significant heat, smoke, and water damage, and the occupants will be displaced, Connelly said. The residents of the second floor apartment, though, were able to return Monday morning, with minor smoke damage, along with a damaged wall, busted as firefighters checked to see that the fire hadn’t spread upstairs.
Connelly did not know what damage, if any, an adjoining residence at 208 West Broad Street had received as of Monday morning.
Fire crews from all Tamaqua fire companies as well as Lansford, plus Tamaqua Ambulance, Tamaqua Police, and Tamaqua Fire Police responded to the scene.
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