A fire tore through an unoccupied house on Hamilton Street last week causing extensive damage to the home, which was in the process of being renovated.

Don Willner, deputy chief of the Davidson Fire Department, said the Aug. 18 fire started in the living room at the front of the house at 210 Hamilton Street and worked its way up an interior wall into the attic. He said the department arrived on scene at 3:55 a.m. to find the house partially in flames, but got it “knocked down” quick enough that the fire didn’t even “melt the siding” on the neighbouring homes.

“We cleared scene at probably 7 or 7:30 in the morning,” said Willner. “There was flame on the exterior of the house and on the front end of the house, but we had that knocked down right away. We had to pull down quite a few ceilings and cut a lot of access holes through the roof itself to get the attic vented out and to get it cooled down.

“The actual flame we had knocked down probably within 20 minutes, but that’s a lot of work to get into the attic area to get the remaining hot spots cooled down.”

Engine 41, 42 and the Davidson Fire water tanker along with nine firefighters were involved in combating the burn. Davidson EMS and members of the Craik RCMP detachment were also present.

To read more please see the August 27 print edition of The Davidson Leader.