A home at 2220 Boomer Community Center Road in the Boomer community was heavily damaged by fire Monday night.
The Boomer, Moravian Falls and Goshen fire departments were dispatched in response to the fire at Benny and Carol Bradley’s 1,400-square-foot wood frame home a few minutes before 6 p.m.
Boomer Fire Chief Allen Nichols said the fire started from an electric heater in a bathroom and advanced up a wall to the attic, where it spread across the house by following the path of air conditioning duct.
Nichols said firefighters had a hard time accessing the blaze due to the walls of three to four additions and had to cut through them to reach it with water. Firefighters were on the scene until about 10:30 p.m.
He said the bathroom where it started is in the middle of the house, which resulted in the fire spreading even faster.