{"id":9352,"date":"2019-01-09T18:12:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T22:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=9352"},"modified":"2019-01-09T18:12:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T22:12:38","slug":"creosote-buildup-cause-of-robinson-drive-chimney-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=9352","title":{"rendered":"Creosote buildup cause of Robinson Drive chimney fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"StoryBody\" class=\"rtEditor\" title=\"(double-click to edit)\" data-role=\"none\">\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER: <\/strong>A buildup of creosote is the cause of a chimney fire on Jan. 3 that sent firefighters to a residence on Robinson Drive in Fall River Village.<\/p>\n<p>HRM spokesman Brendan Elliott said that 27 firefighters from Station 9 (Metropolitan Sackville); Station 10 (Sackville Drive); Station 41 (Waverley); Station 45 (Fall River); Station 42 (Wellington); and Station 43 (Grand Lake) responded to the call at 91 Robinson Drive, which came in at 6:27 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, there was light smoke and fire had extended into the attic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scene was very icy for our firefighters,\u201d said Elliott.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nD_CZ57I3Qg\"><strong>VIDEO: Firefighters on scene at the call<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9355\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9355 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/file2-38-e1546626651155.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A firefighter pushes the air tanks to be refilled in TAC 45 at the chimney fire call on Jan. 3. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Firefighters were spotted placing salt down on the driveway and a contractor drove by the scene laying salt on the roadway to make it safe for fire crews.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott said the homeowners were home at the time of the fire, however managed to get out uninjured. The family was outside as firefighters were arriving.<\/p>\n<p>He said the house sustained serious damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe in-law suite was a total loss,\u201d said Elliott, unsure of the exact dollar figure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tJx_CzLcSBE\"><strong>VIDEO: Tanker switch at the chimney fire<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said fire investigators told him that the area of origin was the chimney, near the clean out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of this fire we will be launching an awareness campaign shortly focused on the need to have your chimney cleaned on a regular basis,\u201d said Elliott.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9356\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9356 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/file2-40-e1546626637991.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another rotation of firefighters takes place at the chimney fire call on Jan. 3 in Fall River. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: A buildup of creosote is the cause of a chimney fire on Jan. 3 that sent firefighters to a residence on Robinson Drive in Fall River Village. HRM spokesman Brendan Elliott said that 27 firefighters from Station 9 (Metropolitan Sackville); Station 10 (Sackville Drive); Station 41 (Waverley); Station 45 (Fall River); Station 42 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[183,2,32,190,64],"class_list":["post-9352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-featured","tag-chimney-fire","tag-fall-river","tag-firefighters","tag-robinson-drive","tag-station-45"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}