MORRISVILLE At least 10 homes were damaged by the fire, which started around 10:20 p.m.
Posted: Sunday, February 26, 2012 5:55 am | Updated: 6:42 am, Sun Feb 26, 2012.
A devastating four-alarm fire ripped through a number of rowhomes in Morrisville late Saturday night.
Morrisville Fire Marshal Robert Seward said no one was injured, but the destructive blaze left an entire row of homes along the stretch of West Philadelphia Avenue uninhabitable.
The original fire call came in from 43 W. Philadelphia Ave. at 10:20 p.m.
The fire quickly spread from home to home, as residents hastily evacuated. Firefighters from throughout Bucks County, as well as those from Burlington and Mercer counties in New Jersey, responded, authorities said. Firefighters declared the blaze under control at about 12:10 a.m. Sunday.
It appeared the fire hit at least 14, and maybe more, of the 21 homes in the stretch, which is just west of South Pennsylvania Avenue. Authorities were on the scene investigating the cause of the fire late into the night.
Seward said investigators were trying to gather all the residents to see who would need assistance with the American Red Cross.
One woman who lives in the block stood near the corner of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia avenues in tears.
“What is there to say? I lost my home,” she said.
Elizabeth Tolan was watching her two grandchildren at her daughter’s house along that stretch when one of the grandsons saw a fire engine outside.
“Grandma there’s a fire engine,” she said he told her.
Tolan then saw a firefighter take a hose next door.
She threw shoes on their feet and got them out of the house. They were wearing their pajamas, she said.
“It’s just getting worse and worse,” one man said as he watched firefighters on the roof, who broke the windows so crews on the ground could get water to the fire, and move from one house to the next.
Scott Evans, who lives nearby, also watched the firefighters as smoke billowed through the neighborhood and flames came through the tops of the houses.
“Every time they make a push, flames keep pushing through the roof,” he said.
Smoke could be seen from the Route 1 Superhighway in Falls. People from all over the community watched as firefighters battled the blaze.
Officials closed many of the roads near that section of the borough as dozens of emergency vehicles staged in the area.
Morrisville Fire Marshal Robert Seward said no one was injured, but the destructive blaze left an entire row of homes along the stretch of West Philadelphia Avenue uninhabitable.
The original fire call came in from 43 W. Philadelphia Ave. at 10:20 p.m.
The fire quickly spread from home to home, as residents hastily evacuated. Firefighters from throughout Bucks County, as well as those from Burlington and Mercer counties in New Jersey, responded, authorities said. Firefighters declared the blaze under control at about 12:10 a.m. Sunday.
It appeared the fire hit at least 14, and maybe more, of the 21 homes in the stretch, which is just west of South Pennsylvania Avenue. Authorities were on the scene investigating the cause of the fire late into the night.
Seward said investigators were trying to gather all the residents to see who would need assistance with the American Red Cross.
One woman who lives in the block stood near the corner of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia avenues in tears.
“What is there to say? I lost my home,” she said.
Elizabeth Tolan was watching her two grandchildren at her daughter’s house along that stretch when one of the grandsons saw a fire engine outside.
“Grandma there’s a fire engine,” she said he told her.
Tolan then saw a firefighter take a hose next door.
She threw shoes on their feet and got them out of the house. They were wearing their pajamas, she said.
“It’s just getting worse and worse,” one man said as he watched firefighters on the roof, who broke the windows so crews on the ground could get water to the fire, and move from one house to the next.
Scott Evans, who lives nearby, also watched the firefighters as smoke billowed through the neighborhood and flames came through the tops of the houses.
“Every time they make a push, flames keep pushing through the roof,” he said.
Smoke could be seen from the Route 1 Superhighway in Falls. People from all over the community watched as firefighters battled the blaze.
Officials closed many of the roads near that section of the borough as dozens of emergency vehicles staged in the area.
