Smoky Sunday
Members of the Jamestown Fire Department battle a blaze at 301 Crescent St. in the city Sunday afternoon.
P-J photo by Dave Emke
An unseasonably warm autumn afternoon became much warmer for Jamestown firefighters when they responded to a house fire in the city shortly before 4:30 p.m. Sunday. The blaze at 301 Crescent St. ‘‘was pretty well-advanced when we got the call,’’ said Bill Johnston, Jamestown Fire Department battalion chief, who also said the cause of the fire was unknown. An investigation was ongoing Sunday evening. A female victim, who escaped the burning home and fled to a business on Second Street, was transported to WCA Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The firefighters’ battle against the blaze was complicated, according to Johnston, by the fire’s extension into an open gas main. ‘‘We had to let (the fire) burn, in order to control it, until we finally got (the gas line) turned off,’’ Johnston explained. National Fuel workers were called to the scene to turn off the main. He described the blaze as a ‘‘typical older-house fire,’’ citing the structure’s balloon-frame construction as
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