Raw video: House fire with hoarding conditions in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
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Video from cmichaeljohnson01 of a fire first spotted by a member of the Shepherdstown VFD Saturday afternoon. The fire was at 302 W. German Street. The fire chief told reporters the home was packed with items. The outside of the home appeared to have similar conditions as you will see in the video above of the rear of the structure.
Shepherdstown Volunteer Fire Department Chief Ross Morgan said crews had trouble entering the structure in their first attempts. Morgan attributed the difficulty to the ferocity of the fire, as well as the amount of contents within the home. No one was believed to be in the residence at the time of the fire.
“The guys tried to go in the front door and the rear,” Morgan said. “They could only get in maybe 10 feet.”
Shepherdstown is undergoing an upgrade of its water system, Morgan said. Because of this, a tanker task force was called to the town. The task force pumped water from the Potomac River, upon which Shepherdstown sits, into fire engines and brought it to the scene.
“We’re trying to keep that water storage in town for the town,” Morgan said.
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