![]() ![]() “It came up from underneath the porch,” Canonico said of the fire’s origin.Ĭanonico said he ran his business, KGK Contracting, out of his home.īashioum said her family had two dogs that got out safely. The Allegheny County Fire Marshal’s office responded to try to determine the cause. He said he would be turning the footage over to investigators. “It was not able to be contained,” she said.Ĭanonico said smoke from the fire triggered a surveillance camera at the house. She said the building was quickly engulfed, with flames spitting from the windows and doors. When Katelyn Robinson first smelled the smoke, she thought someone was having a bonfire on a warm, sunny day. “The whole porch was on fire when I looked out,” he said.Ĭhris Lanious, who was across the street, said he first saw smoke coming from the back of the house before flames began rolling up over it. He said one of his children told him the back porch was on fire. The Red Cross was called to help them, Fox said.Ĭanonico, who owns a contracting business, said he got home about 20 minutes before the fire broke out. Julie Bashioum, who is eight months pregnant, said she and her husband have two sons, ages 10 and 12 Joe Canonico said five children ranging in age from 1 to 14 lived with him and his girlfriend on the other side of the duplex.īashioum said her family had lived there for two years, Canonico’s for five years. The two families who lived in the duplex were home but got out unhurt. At one point during the fire, the back wall of the duplex collapsed, and part of the roof caved in. Heat from the fire melted siding on houses on both sides of the duplex. With the house still smoldering, an excavator was brought in to dig through the rubble so firefighters could extinguish hot spots, Summit Hose fire Chief Josh Fox said.Īn excavator has begun tearing through the rubble of a house fire in Tarentum that has left two families homeless. ![]() ![]() It sent a thick plume of smoke into the air that was visible from as far away as the Ninth Street Bridge in New Kensington.įirefighters were still there five hours later. The fire that destroyed a duplex at 205-207 W. Two families lost their homes to fire in Tarentum on Monday, and a volunteer firefighter responding to the blaze was injured. ![]()
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