A Saturday evening fire left a condominimum along West Castle Way with fire and water damage, but officials said a fast response helped contain the blaze from spreading into adjacent units and prevented wide-spread damage to the rest of the building.
Fire Chief Don Rathbone of the Charlestown-Richmond Volunteer Fire Department said in an email Sunday that no one was injured in the fire, which erupted in a one-story, four-unit condomimum building located off West Castle Way, a private road off Castlerock Drive in the Castlerock Condo Associates complex.
The residents of the home, two adults who were not identified, were able to escape before firefighters arrived and those in neighboring units also evacuated as a precaution.
"Upon arrival fire was burning well inside the enclosure and extended thru the top of it and into the attic," Rathbone said. "The fire was knocked down with one handline in less than ten minutes.