VIDEO: One person is dead after a house fire in Sebring Saturday, which firefighters had difficulty reaching. Trains running through Sebring is nothing new to their community, but it can affect when emergency crews need to get from one end of town to the next. It’s something they’ve dealt with for decades.
At around 10 p.m. Saturday night, a house on New York Avenue was engulfed in flames.
While fire crews were on their way, they were stopped by a train that was making its way through town.
“It took us 13 minutes to get from here to the house that was on fire,” said Sebring Fire Chief Mike Springer.
The tracks run east to west through the heart of Sebring, with the house being on the north end of the tracks.
Damascus Fire Department got there first for mutual aid.