{"id":101123,"date":"2016-06-03T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=101123"},"modified":"2016-06-17T16:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T21:00:48","slug":"jfd-battling-house-fire-ne-jmstwn-sat-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=101123","title":{"rendered":"Oven cause May 21 NE house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jamestown City Fire Department reports that following an investigation the\u00a0most probable cause of the fire is an oven range in the garage accidentally turned on. No injuries reported. Time out 3 hours 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Zenker\/Pollert \u00a0Fire benefit fund<\/strong> has been set up at Gate City Bank, \u00a0309 2nd Av SW (next to Hugo’s).<\/p>\n

Scroll down for Sunday morning aftermath photos. More at Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Night of fire\u00a0photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Previously: \u00a0Jamestown (CSi)\u00a0 The cause of the fire as of Wednesday was still under investigation.\u00a0 City Fire Chief Jim Reuther says the homeowners insurance company will conduct an investigation, expected to take another day or two.<\/p>\n

May 21, 2016\u00a0evening story: \u00a0All units of the the Jamestown City Fire Department were called to a house fire\u00a0about 9:12 p.m.\u00a0 Saturday. \u00a0The house, at 814 17th Street Northeast, was fully involved in flames.<\/p>\n

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Jamestown Police Lt. Justin Blinsky says two Jamestown women were displaced from their home by the fire. Watching from a nearby yard, they were consoled by friends and neighbors as the firefighters knocked down the flames.<\/p>\n

Scroll down for Sunday morning aftermath photos. More at Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Night of fire\u00a0photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The American Red Cross was also on scene providing initial support for the women and firefighters.\u00a0 The women were staying with neighbors on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

One resident, Mary Zenker said new shingles were being applied to the house and bundles of shingles on the roof may have contributed to the black smoke and the rate the fire burned.<\/p>\n

Zenker says \u00a0she was taking a shower when her roommate said there was a fire in the garage.<\/p>\n

Within minutes the fire spread.<\/p>\n

Despite the smoke and flames, some personal items from the house were saved.<\/p>\n

A second home on the other side of the fire\u00a0received \u00a0smoke damage to\u00a0the siding, cracked storm windows, and extensive heat damage to\u00a0garage shingles\u00a0 garage.<\/p>\n

City Fire Cheif Jim Reuther estimated the damage to the house at more than 50 percent but did not place a dollar value on the damage. The cause remains under investigation, but Reuther believed the fire started in the garage. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

Reuther, says department personnel had problems getting into position and fighting the blaze because of the onlookers at the scene, saying \u201cIt was hard to get the trucks in. It was hard to get in quickly and do our job.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Fire Department also had to deal with people getting too close to the fire.<\/p>\n

Firefighters cleared the scene at about midnight.<\/p>\n

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.\u00a0More information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n

Photos credits:\u00a0Steve Wagner & Matt Sheppard – CSi.<\/p>\n

early submitted photo below by Roger Dewald.
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The Jamestown City Fire Department reports that following an investigation the\u00a0most probable cause of the fire is an oven range in the garage accidentally turned on. No injuries reported. Time out 3 hours 30 minutes. The\u00a0Zenker\/Pollert \u00a0Fire benefit fund has been set up at Gate City Bank, \u00a0309 2nd Av […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":101135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101123"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102730,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101123\/revisions\/102730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/101135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}