Local firefighters battled the heat and the flames Wednesday afternoon after a blaze broke out in Flatwoods.
Firefighters drenched the roof of a single-story light blue ranch house at 1008 Pine Street (off Argillite Road) after a fire was reported around 2 p.m.
Eyewitness Dawn Artripe said she was driving past the home when she saw black smoke come out of its rear. Artripe said she saw a woman run out of the house, and then run back in after her husband.
“He had actually got out of there, but she thought he was in the garage-shed thing behind the house,” Artripe recalled. “They both got out there pretty shook up.”
Flatwoods Fire Chief Bret Dean said no one was injured at the fire. He said once the inferno was fully under control he would initiate a fire investigation.
Flatwoods requested assistance from Russell, Westwood, Raceland and Ashland due to the heat, according to Dean.