Fire guts Montrose apartment house
Published: November 18, 2009
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The cause of the blaze that ripped through a Montrose apartment building and damaged a neighboring property last week is under investigation. STAFF PHOTO/STACI WILSON
A three-alarm fire destroyed an apartment building and damaged an adjacent home in Susquehanna County, a fire official said.
About 60 firefighters from at least eight companies worked for two hours before bringing the fire in Montrose under control early Thursday, Nov. 12, United Fire Company Chief Preston Sprout said.
The cause was undetermined pending an investigation by a state police fire marshal, Chief Sprout said.
The fire was reported Wednesday shortly before 11 p.m. at a two-unit apartment building at 66 Church St. and then spread to a home at 64 Church.
There were no injuries. The three people who lived on the second floor of the apartment building were not home when the fire broke out, and the first-floor apartment was unoccupied, Chief Sprout said.
He described the apartment building as a total loss. The house at 64 Church was damaged.
Chief Sprout said the additional alarms were requested because of the proximity of the burning building to other structures.
"It was going pretty good and starting the second one on fire," he said.
