Firefighter suffers minor injuries at house fire in Newburgh

NEWBURGH, Maine (WABI) - A firefighter suffered minor injuries putting out a fire at a Newburgh home Tuesday morning after fire crews from multiple towns responded to a fire at a house on Western Avenue.

None of the occupants of the house were injured.

Multiple departments responded to the call just before 11 A.M. Tuesday.

Officials on scene said there was some minor fire damage, but the majority of the lasting impact will be from the extensive amount of heat and water used.

Hermon Fire Chief Cody Sullivan told WABI that they were in the middle of staff training at Hermon Mountain which put them right down the road.

“In this day and age staffing matters. We were up staff today due to the training, so we were able to roll in with two fully staffed trucks, a support vehicle, and an ambulance. On a normal day, that’s not what our typical response would look like. It would’ve doubled our response time, so the fire would’ve grown twice as big before we arrived. Newburgh was shortly behind us. The quicker you can get people on scene the quicker you can extinguish the fire,” said Sullivan.

The investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing.