No one was injured in a fire late Thursday which destroyed a Pine Township
home, the Pine Township Volunteer Fire Department said.
PTVFD Chief Dan
Timm told the Chesterton Tribune today that firefighters were
dispatched at 9:54 p.m. to a home in the area of C.R. 625E and C.R. 1600N
and found, on their arrival, that the one-and-a-half story residence was
fully involved.
A tanker plan
was immediately implemented, Timm said, as the home is located approximately
an eighth of a mile off the roadway and there are no nearby fire hydrants.
Responding with tankers were the Chesterton, Porter, Burns Harbor, Liberty,
Beverly Shores, and Cool Spring Township fire departments.
Around 28,400
gallons of water were used to extinguish the blaze. One person was at home
at the time but in an outbuilding, Timm said. The fire was actually first
noticed by a neighbor.
The cause of the
fire has not yet been determined and the Porter County Fire Investigation
Strike Team was at the scene this morning, Timm said.
Timm was unable
to estimate the amount of damage but called the home a total loss. “The roof
is on the first floor,” he said.
“It was cold,”
Timm said of the weather. “There was a lot of icing up. But we were able to
handle it.”
The PTVFD
cleared the scene around 2:45 a.m. today.
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