Firefighters are pointing to a blaze that destroyed a home in Shakespeare as an example of the importance of working smoke alarms.
First responders were called to the home on Line 34 Monday morning with firefighters finding flames coming out of the front and back of the structure and extending up into its roof.
Fire Prevention Officer James Marshall says a mother and two children were woken up by the smoke alarm going off and they discovered the fire in the kitchen.
He says things could have turned out much differently.
“With this particular scenario, with how close it was for the residents to make it out of the house with the fire conditions that they faced, if they hadn’t been awoken by the smoke alarm this would be a multiple fatal fire.”
Marshall adds an excavator was brought in to knock down the remaining walls of the home as it wasn’t safe to live in.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
