Late Afternoon Fire Destroys Montgomeryville Home

"Within six minutes, it was gone," said homeowner Linda Carlson

The black smoke billowed above the homes on Douglass Road. Around one curve in the road, residents packed the street behind police crime tape, looking something like a clogged artery. Their eyes were transfixed on the destruction at 20 Douglass Road. The entire roof of the two-story Colonial was gone. Firefighters hit two front upstairs rooms with water; the left upstairs room was consumed by fire. Down on the ground, another group of firefighters blasted the garage. The roof above, which was over a loft, had not just collapsed, but basically ripped at the seams where the eave meets the top of the exterior wall. Siding above the front door was melted off. You could see the woods behind the house through the front windows. Among all the …

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