Another Fire in Springs

A fire broke out in the basement of a house on 11th Street in Springs Wednesday morning, causing smoke damage throughout the structure.

The Springs Fire Department was called to 22 11th Street at 7:40 a.m. David King, the first assistant chief, said three or four adults vacationing there were alerted by smoke detectors and got out of the house before firefighters arrived. No one was hurt.

Firefighters discovered that the furnace had malfunctioned. "Instead of being a puff back, it was a fire outside the furnace," Chief King said. "They knocked it down within 10 minutes. The rest was overhaul," he said, adding that volunteers remained on the scene for an hour and 10 minutes. About 30 to 35 firefighters responded.

The mechanical room in the basement was destroyed. "There was a lot of smoke damage in the rest of the house -- all the way to the second floor. It went up through the ducts," Chief King said.

"Thankfully it wasn't as bad as the other one," he said, referring to a fire that destroyed a 100-year-old house on Accabonac Road in Springs Saturday morning, displacing a family of four.