Fire Chief Paul Fudge said the call came in just before 8 p.m. When they arrived at the single family dwelling, the department met the only individual that was in the house at the time.
“He wasn’t sure where his brothers were at the time, so crews went in and knocked the fire down, done a primary and secondary search, determining that there was no home,” said Fudge.
The individual on scene was sent to hospital to be treated for chest pains and smoke inhalation.
“But there didn’t appear to be any life threatening injuries,” he said.
Fudge said the cause of the fire is still undetermined, but appears to have started in a bedroom at the front of the home.
Busy two weeks
The Nov. 1 incident was the latest in a string of calls the department has had to respond to over the past couple of weeks.
According to the Gander Fire/Rescue Facebook page, the department has responded to 13 calls over the past two weeks.
This includes one fire, five motor vehicle collisions, one aircraft emergency response, one vehicle fire, an ATV accident and four false alarms.
“It’s unexplainable really,” said Fudge. “We go through dry spells for quite some time, then for some unexplainable reason it gets really busy that has us responding to numerous situations.”
