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A late-morning fire destroyed the house at an Amish farm by the intersection of Ridge and Bull Hill roads in the Town of Wheeler on Monday.
Several local fire departments responded to the blaze at 6354 Ridge Road, called in at 10:30 a.m. by logger Terry Folts, who noticed smoke coming from the house.
Folts found a woman and two children at the residence and drove them to a neighboring house before finding the owner, Moss Schwartz, and alerting him to the fire.
Prattsburgh Fire Chief Ron Putnam said departments had the fire under control in approximately one hour, but were on the scene until almost 4 p.m. finding and putting out hot spots.
There were no injuries in the blaze, but the house was a total loss, he said. No other buildings were damaged in the incident.
“It just burned so fast. We had a lot of hot spots to work on,” said Putnam.
Putnam wasn’t sure where or how the fire started, but said that it could have been a chimney fire.
Steuben County Fire Inv. Joe Gerych said he was still investigating the fire, but that he’d been able to eliminate electrical causes as the source of the blaze since electricity wasn’t used in the house.
Fire departments from Avoca and Kanona responded to the scene in addition to Prattsburgh firefighters. The Pulteney department was on stand-by during the fire.
A late-morning fire destroyed the house at an Amish farm by the intersection of Ridge and Bull Hill roads in the Town of Wheeler on Monday.
Several local fire departments responded to the blaze at 6354 Ridge Road, called in at 10:30 a.m. by logger Terry Folts, who noticed smoke coming from the house.
Folts found a woman and two children at the residence and drove them to a neighboring house before finding the owner, Moss Schwartz, and alerting him to the fire.
Prattsburgh Fire Chief Ron Putnam said departments had the fire under control in approximately one hour, but were on the scene until almost 4 p.m. finding and putting out hot spots.
There were no injuries in the blaze, but the house was a total loss, he said. No other buildings were damaged in the incident.
“It just burned so fast. We had a lot of hot spots to work on,” said Putnam.
Putnam wasn’t sure where or how the fire started, but said that it could have been a chimney fire.
Steuben County Fire Inv. Joe Gerych said he was still investigating the fire, but that he’d been able to eliminate electrical causes as the source of the blaze since electricity wasn’t used in the house.
Fire departments from Avoca and Kanona responded to the scene in addition to Prattsburgh firefighters. The Pulteney department was on stand-by during the fire.
