Southern York County Life

Wood pile sparks blaze in Hopewell Twp.

Proximity to heat caused gas to ignite in basement

A two-alarm blaze that badly damaged a Hopewell Township home this morning erupted in a pile of wood stored too close to a basement wood stove.

“When you stack wood near a heat source, over time the heat will break down the wood,” said Eureka Volunteer Fire Chief Ira Walker Jr.  “It’s not the wood itself that (initially) burns—the wood gives off a gas,” he said, which is what ignites first.

Source: The York Dispatch (we obtain permission for external material)
by ELIZABETH EVANS
Posted by Dan Baldwin on 01/19/2005 at 03:38 PM in News

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