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Fire Chases Double Block Residents Into the Cold

Fire Chases Double Block Residents Into the Cold - Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 10:05AM EST

Reported by: Mark Hiller
Thursday, Nov 5, 2009 @ 10:05am EST
JENKINS TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY - An early morning fire leaves 6-people out of their Pittston Area homes.
State police fire marshal is investigating the fire that nearly ended in tragedy.
The fire scene at 33 and 31 Mitchell Street is in the Port Griffith section of Jenkins Township.
It's here where a man who happened to wake up on his own and spotted the devastating fire just in a nick of time.
A Jenkins Township firefighter chips away at a smoldering double block home -- hours after the fire started.
much of the rear of the building is charred.
Huddled in the cold looking at the damage are members of Charlie Chaump's family.
His 27-year-old son, Corey, discovered the fire just before 5 a-m when he went to use the bathroom.

"I opened the bathroom door and the smoke came billowing out and, you know, I heard the crackling and I looked out the window, saw the orange flames," said Corey Chaump.

His friend from Wilkes-Barre was sleeping over on a first floor couch.

"By the time he woke me up the whole back porch was in flames," said Mike Watson. "I didn't know what to do. I just woke up and ran out the door."

Corey knew the rest of his family, including his parents, were sleeping. He said, "I ran up the stairs and started screaming. I got everybody out here."

The Chaumps also worried about Linda Evans, who lives on the other side.

Corey said, "We banged on the door, you know, as soon as we got out on the porch and made sure everybody was out."

The other family members were too distraught to talk on camera but they told me they're just glad Corey was alert, saw the fire and managed to get everybody out safely.

The fire was so fierce a teen-ager who was sleeping in a next door house heard it from his window that's now surrounded by melted siding. He then woke-up his mother.

"And I jumped up and I ran to the hallway and all I could see was flames out his window and they're screaming to me call 911, call 911," said neighbor Doris Mersincavage.

As bad as it is, no one was hurt. And these fire victims are trying to take it all in stride.

"Stuff happens I guess, you know," said Corey.

A state police fire marshal from the Wyoming Barracks is heading the investigation.
 


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