In total, the incident took about one hour to contain and the family was allowed back in the home.
Firefighters were called to Woburn Street on Friday night after receiving a 911 call for a chimney fire at a neighborhood home. Deput Chief Rick McClellan said the residents immediately called for help and when crews arrived there was fire showing from the chimney. Lt. Chris Pozzi led crews at the scene as firefighters were able to minimize the damage done by the flames, McClellan said. Once the fire was doused, crews removed burning logs from the fireplace and dropped weighted chains into the chimney to clear any blockages. Then firefighters dropped a dry chemical powder down the chimney in order to smother any embers left behind. Firefighters also used a thermal imaging camera to check the area where the fire began, and about one hour …
The Wilmington and North Reading Fire Department responded to a fire at 349 Woburn St. a little past noon today
A house fire at 349 Woburn St. in Wilmington early this afternoon was quickly put out, but not before causing damage to a significant portion of the home. According to Wilmington Fire Department dispatch, the call came in at 12:29 p.m. today. Wilmington fire and the North Reading Fire Department responded to the scene and the Tewskbury Fire Department helped cover at the station. Wilmington Fire Chief Ed Bradbury said the fire was extinguished within minutes after the departments arrived. Two rooms of the home had fire damage and much of the house had damage from smoke and water. There was also a hole in the roof and one on the side of the house affected by the fire. "We knocked the fire down fairly quickly," Bradbury said, "probably …
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