Blaze destroys garage, equipment at Murrysville home
Flames destroyed a garage and equipment stored inside Friday afternoon in Murrysville.
No one was injured in the blaze reported after 4:30 p.m. at a home in the 4000 block of Bulltown Road.
Sardis Fire Chief Cody Paiano said an adjacent outbuilding sustained some exterior charring but no interior fire damage. The official cause of the fire and the value of the loss had yet to be determined, he said.
Owner Frank DeMarco told the Tribune-Review he suspects the building may have been sparked by an unseen ember, remaining after he burned some nearby weeds.
“It was an older garage, but I had all that equipment stored in there,” including a Bobcat machine, a zero-turn mower, hand mowers and a log-splitter, he said.
A neighbor spotted the fire.
“By that point, it was gone,” DeMarco said.
Jeff Himler is a TribLive reporter covering Greater Latrobe, Ligonier Valley, Mt. Pleasant Area and Derry Area school districts and their communities. He also reports on transportation issues. A journalist for more than three decades, he enjoys delving into local history. He can be reached at jhimler@triblive.com.
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