He said the roof joists were what was burning and the damage was isolated to the one area,
“It was a well executed fire. Everybody did really well. We basically kept it to the wood stove area. When we were inside after the fire was out, the wall was ripped out all the way around the stove to make sure we didn’t miss any hot spots. But really that’s all the damage we had in there.” Gaskill said the frigid temperatures made things difficult for the firefighters “Our knobs were frozen shut. We had some air packs that we had issues with because they were froze. We had a lot of tanks changing out and a lot of air packs being flipped around.”
Fire Departments from Defiance and Irwin were called to assist about 15 minutes within battling the blaze. They were on scene for about 2 hours while the Manilla Fire Department was there until 6:30 this morning. Gaskill said the family was staying with a neighbor. The wood burning stove was the likely cause of the fire but was not confirmed by the department. A dollar amount of damage was not given.
(Joel McCall/KNOD)
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