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Photo courtesy: Erin Passinger, The Corry Journal<\/p>\n
COLUMBUS, Pa. \u2014 Six family members were hospitalized Sunday after a large house fire in Columbus Township, east of Corry, that brought firefighters from Erie and Warren counties, as well as western New York, to battle the flames.<\/p>\n
The fire broke out just after 2 p.m. at a home at 65 West Main Street. Photographs taken by The Corry Journal showed heavy flames and thick smoke pouring from the sprawling residence.<\/p>\n
Corry Fire Chief Chris Lyon told Erie News Now that firefighters had to rescue two people who were trapped on the home’s second floor.<\/p>\n
Six family members inside the home at the time of the fire were hospitalized. Three were flown outside the region for treatment of burns and heat-related injuries. Those three included a 14-year-old girl and another teenager. The other three family members were taken to Corry Hospital.<\/p>\n
Firefighters faced significant challenges inside the home, including hoarding conditions, blocked doors and windows, and the home’s balloon-frame construction, which can allow fire to spread rapidly through concealed spaces.<\/p>\n
The fire spread throughout all three floors of the house, including the attic. It took firefighters approximately three hours to bring the flames under control.<\/p>\n
Four Corry firefighters also required medical treatment. They were treated for smoke inhalation, and one also was treated for an arm injury.<\/p>\n
A Pennsylvania State Police fire marshal is assisting with the investigation into the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy: Erin Passinger, The Corry Journal COLUMBUS, Pa. \u2014 Six family members were hospitalized Sunday after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[125313,126759,136,138,137,1510,57630,813,40433,5612,812,43922],"class_list":["post-309656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-burn-injuries","tag-columbus-pennsylvania","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-family","tag-fire-investigation","tag-firefighters","tag-hospitalization","tag-house-fire","tag-rescue","tag-smoke-inhalation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}