LYNNFIELD — An early morning, two-alarm fire on Thanksgiving Day shortly after 6:30 a.m. caused significant damage to a one-story home on Bishops Lane.
“The first arriving company was Engine 1 out of the South Lynnfield fire station,” said Lynnfield Fire Chief Glenn Davis, adding that the company reported heavy fire on arrival and requested a second alarm.
Davis said he arrived on the scene shortly after that and found heavy fire throughout the attic. Thankfully, the homeowners — a husband and wife and their dog — were already out of the house.
“They were all out and accounted for and the crews did a great job with an aggressive interior attack and were able to control the fire,” Davis said. “There was a lot of damage and the home was burned all the way across and there also was a lot of damage to the interior.”
Davis said the fire was under investigation by the state fire marshal, the state police and the Lynnfield police, which is routine.
“We do that for every fire (because) I just don’t have an internal investigative unit,” said Davis. “Right now it looks accidental, but at this point in time I don’t know, it’s too early for me to comment just yet. That will be up to the insurance company and the state fire marshal,” adding that the state fire marshal and Lynnfield police were on the scene investigating.
The fire started outside the garage and burned its way in, Davis said, and then extended up into the attic with heavy smoke and fire throughout the home.
“When we did our initial interior and looked around to see what we have, then pulled down the attic stairs, and we had heavy fire from end to end throughout the attic, so we knew we had deep extension throughout the house,” Davis said.
The second alarm prompted responses from the Middleton, Wakefield, North Reading and Reading fire departments. Lynn Fire and Peabody Fire assisted with coverage at the station.
Davis said the homeowners had already been contacted by the Red Cross and were getting assistance, but they likely “would be displaced for a couple of days.
“Fortunately, they were awake and found it (the fire) and didn’t get woken up in the middle of the night, so it could have been a lot worse,” Davis said.
“It was a great job by everyone involved and there were no injuries, we just are trying to get everyone home to their families for Thanksgiving,” Davis said. “Everybody’s well, that’s the bottom line, everybody will be going home. Everybody’s good on my team, too.”
