Bolivar firefighters say a house suffered significant heat and smoke damage, but it would have been much worse had the owner not been alerted about the fire while away.
Chief Shawn Lynch says this was in the one-thousand block of North Orchard Road northeast, Sunday around 6:45 pm. The owners were out of town but received a high heat warning on their cell phone.
Lynch says crews arrived to smoke coming from the house and found the fire in the kitchen, which they had out rapidly. It wasn’t obvious how the fire started. The cause is listed as unknown – electrical, originating from the kitchen.
Later on, in a separate fire, New Philadelphia Assistant Fire Chief Matt Tharp says they responded to the 11-hundred block of Glenn Drive northeast just after 3 am Monday morning as someone at that residence woke up to smoke after rags that were used for staining wood earlier in the day had been bundled up and spontaneously caught on fire and caused some smoke in the garage.
Tharp says the rags had already been removed from the garage before firefighters arrived. Firefighters did stick around to ventilate the structure and there was no other damage.
Copyright WTUZ Radio Inc., 2025