Tanker Responds to Mutual Aid House Fire |
By Member Phil Tretton | |
May 22, 2017 | |
CHARLESTOWN — An 8-year-old boy alerted his grandparents to a fire in that totaled the couple’s free-standing garage and James and Doris Tarrant, of 44 Hoxie Ave., south of Route 1, said they were sitting in their living room when their grandson, James Tarrant, a retired New York City fireman with a 20-year career, guided his wife and grandson out of the house and safely Dunn’s Corner Deputy Chief Carl Johnson said the garage was fully engulfed when his company arrived. “The flames were 30 feet high,” he said. “There’s damage to the main house exterior, the siding is melted and there’s water Firefighters reported that the fire had been brought under control by about 7:20 p.m. The state fire marshal was on the scene and an investigation into the cause of the fire will be performed, Johnson said. Tankers from Ashaway, Hope Valley, Charlestown, Carolina, Richmond, and Dunn’s Corners provided water. Traffic on Route 1 The house is the Tarrants’ summer home, which they purchased in 1980, and they had returned last week from Florida, where “We just put a new roof, siding, a new door, and the porch on last year — it was all in top-top shape ,” James Tarrant. “So now Doris Tarrant said only one neighbor lived on the street year round. “You never know, you never know,” she said. “I’ve always The Tarrants said they weren’t sure what was stored in the garage except there were things they had brought when they “There was at least 10 bins of stuff from when we moved up here 38 years ago,” he said. Kevin Ryan, a patrolman for Charlestown, checked that the couple and their grandson had a place to stay tonight because they “We’ll stay with neighbors,” Doris Tarrant said. The flames were as high as the house, said Ryan. “It looked like a mushroom cloud,” he said. “It was also fortunate that the “I just saw a bunch of smoke and when I saw a tiny bit closer, I saw flames,” Kubrick Tarrant said. |
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