At just after midnight on Thursday, December 11th 2008, as Cherry Hill Firefighters were returning from another reported house fire, they responded to a second reported fire in a home on Bellows Lane in the Knollwood section of Cherry Hill. The fire was reported by an off duty firefighter as a "working fire". As firefighters arrived, they encountered heavy fire in a two story home under construction. Additionally, the fire was so intense, it was threatening the occupied homes on either side, already melting the vinyl siding on one.
Firefighters acted quickly by evacuating the occupied homes on either side and stretching hose lines to simultaneously protect the threatened homes and fight the fire in the dwelling under construction. An aerial ladder main was also raised and applied on the fire in the original dwelling. The quick action and aggressive attack enabled firefighters to control this fire within 15 minutes of their arrival on location. After the main body of fire was extinguished, firefighters overhauled the home, searching for and extinguishing all hot spots. This fire is under investigation by the Cherry Hill Fire Marshal's Office.
Photos by John Axford. More available on the CHFD Flickr Website.
