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Redstone Twp. home damaged by fire

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REDSTONE TWP. – An air conditioning unit in an upstairs bedroom caught fire at 4487 Fourth St. around 6 p.m. Monday, singeing the homeowner’s hair but injuring no one else. Rich Lenk, chief of the Grindstone Volunteer Fire Department, pointed to the green siding blackened at the rear of the house.

The air conditioning unit sat in an upper-story window, once cooling the bedroom where the fire started.

“It burned every room upstairs,” Lenk noted.

Onlookers watched as fire crews broke the upstairs windows, searched for hot spots and, with the assistance of the Smock ladder truck, prepared to cut a hole in the roof to allow for ventilation.

Tom Kasovich, owner of the Redstone Township home, said he was in an upstairs bedroom watching a ballgame when he saw smoke coming from underneath the door of another bedroom where his son, Edward Kasovich, was.

Both men escaped uninjured, and Tom Kasovich said the house is still habitable.

“I’ll fix it up,” he said, noting the downstairs of the home may have sustained some water damage from extinguishing the blaze.

Volunteer fire departments from South Brownsville and Smock and Fayette EMS assisted at the scene.

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