LANSDALE BOROUGH FIRE

Fire crews extinguish oven fire in Lansdale Friday afternoon

The call came in shortly before 1 p.m.

Photo by James Short.

The call came in shortly before 1 p.m.

  • Public Safety

A small stove fire in an apartment at the Carriage House Apartments at 380 N. Cannon Ave., Lansdale, disrupted traffic on Cannon Avenue between Fifth Street and Mill Alley Friday afternoon.

A caller reported the smell of something burning and fire crews found heavy odor of smoke and a working fire upon arrival to the apartment complex. 

The fire was under control by 1:15 p.m., per emergency radio traffic.

Fairmount Fire Co. of Lansdale and Towamencin Fire Co. responded to the scene, and were assisted by the Lansdale Fire Marshal, Lansdale Police, and Hatfield Fire Co.

No one was home at the time of the fire, per reports. 

There were no injuries and no extension into neighboring apartments, said Fairmount Fire Chief Gavin Butler. 

He said the scene was turned over to the Lansdale Fire Marshal for investigation into the cause of the fire, as per normal procedure. 


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Tony Di Domizio

Tony Di Domizio is the Managing Editor of NorthPennNow, PerkValleyNow, and CentralBucksNow, and a staff writer for WissNow. Email him at [email protected]. Tony graduated from Kutztown University, under the tutelage of Dr. Matthew Nesvisky and Dr. Heather Thomas, and went on to serve as a reporter and editor for various news organizations, including Lansdale Patch/AOL, The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., and the weekly Chronicle news editions of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. A fourth-generation Lansdalian, he was born and raised in and around the Borough, including Little Italy, and attended North Penn High School, graduating in 1998. He once interviewed Jesse Spano in the back of a limousine outside North Penn High School.