ROCHESTER, Pa. — Fire burned through the roof of a Beaver County home and left three firefighters hurt on Thursday.
A Beaver County 911 supervisor says crews were called to the 400 block of Harmony Avenue in Rochester at 9:15 a.m.
“It was pretty bad… the fire was already pretty big when I was woken up,” Allen Henley told Channel 11.
His roommate woke him up and told him they needed to get out of the home.
“I thought she was joking when she first woke me up. She said the house is on fire, and I said what?” He said.
Henley told Channel 11 that his roommate was making something in the kitchen when a candle tipped over.
Because the house is so old, it quickly went up in flames.
Channel 11 also spoke to the Rochester fire chief, who told us the layout of the home made it difficult to put out the flames.
“We were offensive at first, but the fire got too much for us as we got to the third floor,” Rochester Fire Chief Michael Mamome III said. “We got defensive and pulled everyone out, put a lot of water on the fire, and got it to a place where we could safely enter.”
The chief told us that three firefighters were hurt in the fire. The most serious injury was a broken leg.
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