Dover firefighters are crediting a neighbor for reporting a house fire to 9-1-1 in the 16-hundred block of pleasant hill road northwest in Dover township Thursday.
This happened at about 3:45 pm. Fire captain Mike Mossor says the woman who lives there wasn’t home at the time and will have to stay elsewhere for now. Firefighters arrived to the house full of smoke. They eventually found flames in the basement.
It took about 15 minutes to extinguish, leaving smoke damage throughout the home and heavy fire and water damage to the basement.
Mosser says they determined the fire started with a malfunctioning dehumidifier in the basement.
New Philadelphia, Bolivar, Strasburg, York Township, and Dundee firefighters assisted at the scene.
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