Local fire companies were alerted for a house fire at 2:12 pm on Thursday, March 24, 2016 on the 2100 block of Green Mill Road not far from Rt. 140.

First arriving units found fire from the car port on the right side of the house with extension into the roof and kitchen. Several pine trees and other shrubs bordering the house and the property line were also burning.

Units aggressively attacked the fire from the car port and inside the ranch style house. They also had to fight fire in the trees and brush. The fire was quickly knocked down but units continued inside the house until it was fully extinguished. They remained on the scene to check for hot spots inside the house and roof and to extinguish the resulting fires in the trees and shrubbery.

The Office of the State Fire Marshal was conducting an investigation.

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