A Port au Port East man is without a home following a fire on Wednesday evening that completely destroyed his house.
The owner was in the house at the time the fire started but got out okay to make an emergency call from a neighbour’s home.
Deputy Fire Chief Wayne Deaves of the Port au Port Regional Fire Department said when one of their firefighters was on his way to the fire station, which is nearby, the whole attached garage of the structure was in flames.
He said the fire seems to have started in the garage portion of the home and spread to the rest of the house before firefighters could get it under control, then put it out.
Deaves said they were hampered a little at first from fighting the fire on one side of the building because there was a live wire that was arcing blue sparks, so they had to wait until Newfoundland Power employees arrived on the scene to cut the power before they could attack the fire from that side of the building.
There was also a car in the driveway that had fire damage which firefighters had to slide over the snow away from the burning home.
Deaves said the call came in to them at 6:17 p.m. and it was sometime after 2:30 a.m. before the last firefighters left after working on hotspots. They had about 18 firefighters attend.
The firefighters managed to prevent the fire from damaging a nearby house.