PHOTOS: Three fire departments battled a massive blaze at McCubbin’s Furniture and Appliance Tuesday afternoon and into Tuesday night.
At approximately 3:00, the Leitchfield, Clarkson and East Grayson Fire Departments responded to McCubbin’s in the 2400 block of William Thomason Byway after, according to Leitchfield Fire Chief Tim Duvall, a pile of cardboard being burned between a storage building and storage pod got out of control, spreading to the building and pod.
Upon Duvall arriving on the scene within minutes, flames had engulfed the storage building and pod. The building and pod contained a combination of mattresses, refrigerators (as well as refrigerators used to store wine) and furniture, with what Duvall described as “a new type of freon” in the refrigerators causing an explosion.