Fire District 3 battles house fire in Langley

Published 11:08 am Monday, September 14, 2009

Fire District 3 firefighters are mopping up a house fire on Langley Road that happened after a homeowner started a fire in a wood stove and hot ashes apparently fell onto the home’s cedar-shake roof.

The roof at one end of the home was extensively damaged by the blaze.

District 3 firefighters are pulling the roof apart, shake by shake, with axes and a chainsaw to remove pieces of smoldering wood.

No one was hurt in the fire.

Langley Road is closed down to one lane as emergency workers route traffic around a line of fire trucks, a water tender and other apparatus at the scene.