There were no injuries after city fire crews extinguished a fire in a house on the 800 block of Peninsula Road Friday morning.
The call came in just before 6:30 am.
Chief Jason Whiteley says the chimney fire had extended to the outside of the house, but crews were able to quickly get it under control.
“The homeowner was trying to control it with his own garden hose,” he says. “Firefighters quickly continued to douse the outside. It had gone into the roof area and we quickly got the fire under control in the roof.”
Whiteley says it was a little more stubborn in the floor area around the chimney.
“We had to cut a few floorboards as the fire was starting to progress back into the house but we quickly got it under control as well,” he says.
Whiteley says the fire started in the chimney system of a wood-burning stove.
