Heavy black smoke reported at residence
Acme POINT - Capt. Dan Fritsch is used to rushing to the scene of a fire in order to fight the blaze. However, fire struck secret to home for Fritsch late Thursday night.
Fritsch, a professional firefighter, is also a volunteer at Citizens Fire Co. in Charles Borough. While he was working, a fire occurred around 11:30 p.m. in the basement of his home at the 4400 block of Summit Point Avenue.
"I got the phone call at work from my wife going, 'Something's not right.' ... I said get out of the house and call 911," Fritsch said in a phone check out Friday morning, explaining that his wife told him she opened the basement door and saw smoke.
He said the fire caused "smoke mar throughout the house, a lot of smoke damage in the basement."
There was heavy black smoke coming from the basement when crews arrived on backdrop, and the house's dehumidifier had caught the water heater and surrounding objects on fire, Fritsch said.
The fire was contained to the abode's basement by responding departments, which included units from Independent, Citizens, Middleway, Friendship, Bakerton, Dirty Ridge Mountain, South Berkeley and Clarke County, Va.






