(Photos by Steve Heath)
A roaring fire destroyed one Pennsboro home early Wednesday morning, scorched two others, including the city building.
WTAP-TV reported "Around 2 a.m. Wednesday morning the fire sirens in Pennsboro were blaring so loud the noise woke up one 12-year old boy, Donny Bonnell, who opened his eyes and looked out his window."
"And the fire from the house next door was coming in his window and he came and got us and said Britney's house is on fire," said his mother, Donna Bonnell.
"She rounded up her family and headed outside to check on their neighbor and her four children."
In that burning house, a child woke up, saw the fire in the downstairs living room and helped everyone escape before it spread.
"And they were just standing in the middle of the street, no clothes, no shoes, or anything cause they just ran out the door. And so everyone come here to be safe and then it got to where this house wasn't safe." Donna Bonnell said.
The house where the blaze started is on the intersection of Main Street and Wells Avenue.
It rapidly progressed to damage two neighbor's homes and the city building.
Heat knocked out 15-20 windows of the Pennsboro city building, said Pennsboro Fire Chief Robert Riggs.
Riggs said the family lost everything and didn't have insurance on the home.
More than thirty volunteer firefighters from the Pennsboro, Ellenboro, and Harrisville fire departments fought the blaze.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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