PHOTOS: Firefighters in Lebanon responded to a hidden fire in a kitchen wall on Friday morning. Just after 10 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 2, Lebanon Fire District responded to a structure fire in the 200 block of W. Cedar Drive. Upon arrival, crews found light smoke coming from the eaves of the roof of a single-family residence.
Two adults and two small children had already evacuated prior to firefighters’ arrival; however, an elderly woman was still inside the home. Interior conditions were relatively free of smoke, allowing firefighters to quickly enter and safely escort her outside.
While some firefighters located the fire inside a wall and worked on extinguishing it, others performed a thorough search for occupants of the building and pulled additional hoselines for protection. Further information revealed the fire had spread for some time, unnoticed into the attic space, where it burned through portions of the truss members.
