A firefighter attacks a swift-relocating blaze Tuesday that destroyed a Farmingdale home going through renovation in Farmingdale. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal
FARMINGDALE — A swift-shifting fire wrecked a barn and dwelling Tuesday afternoon that was below renovation and nearing completion on Northern Avenue.
The proprietor of the home claimed it was not getting lived in. No one was harm as the building workers at the web page, who reported the fire to authorities, designed it out unharmed.
John Jaques, operator of the house, is a true estate agent for Keller Williams Realty and was in the system of flipping the 122-12 months-aged property. He’d purchased it a couple months ago and was acquiring it renovated to be resold.
He said it was nearing completion and was only weeks absent from being entirely renovated and ready to be place on the current market.
“It was looking truly superior,” he reported of the less than-renovation household at 594 Northern Ave. “It was a wonderful home. It experienced a tin ceiling. I’d just place a grasp suite in.”
Jaques was not at the dwelling when the hearth broke out but went to it immediately after a employee identified as him, immediately after contacting for the fireplace section. He could see the flames from the freeway as he built his way there.
He mentioned the fireplace appeared to commence in the barn, then spread to the house. A few carpenters and two plumbers were operating on the residence at the time of the fire, Jaques claimed, introducing that the constructing experienced been transformed into a 4-bed room, two-rest room dwelling.
The dwelling was insured, the proprietor stated, and was developed close to 1900.
The barn, which was to the rear of the property, was leveled by the fireplace, while all that remained of the adjacent household by 1:30 p.m. was a charred shell of burned wood wall remnants, with vinyl siding clinging to just one side twisted and melted.
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Firefighters remained at the scene Tuesday afternoon, putting out hotspots and extinguishing a pair spots exactly where the flames experienced distribute into the surrounding woods. At the very least 1 Maine forest ranger assisted out. Jaques’ tractor, which was parked following to the barn, also appeared to catch on fireplace.
Contents of the dwelling likely lost to the fireplace incorporated an comprehensive quantity of equipment, as perfectly as cabinets and new fixtures in the dwelling.
Firefighters from Gardiner and numerous region departments responded to assistance Farmingdale firefighters.
Mike LaPlante, assistant fireplace main in Farmingdale, explained firefighters could see smoke from as significantly absent as Augusta. It was fully engulfed in tall flames when firefighters arrived.
Firefighters rotated tanker vehicles to the web page to supply water, which they shuttled from the closest fire hydrants a pair miles up the street.
A firefighter assaults a swift-moving blaze Tuesday that wrecked a Farmingdale household undergoing renovation in Farmingdale. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal
“This is what it appears to be like when you’re out of the hydrant district,” LaPlante stated of bringing in vans comprehensive of drinking water from off-site. “We tried to keep the road open up, for the drinking water offer.”
An investigator from the Place of work of Point out Fireplace Marshal responded to the scene to consider to establish the result in of the blaze.
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