Crime & Safety

Three-Alarm Fire Hits Wrentham Home

Fire strikes family home on Desert Brook Road.

A three-alarm fire hit a Desert Brook Road home early Sunday morning, leaving the building uninhabitable.

The three residents of the home - a husband, wife and 14-year-old son - were unharmed.

According to Wrentham Fire Chief James McMorrow, the department received a cell phone call from the residents of 95 Desert Brook Road at 4:16am Sunday. The department set three fire engines, a ladder truck and an ambulance

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Firefighters arrived to find the house in flames, and personnel from Norfolk, Franklin, Plainville, Walpole, North Attleboro and Foxborough were called in.

According to McMorrow, firefighters entered the building in an attempt to extinguish the fire, but the second floor collapsed at 5am and the crews were pulled out.

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McMorrow said a state police investigator is helping to determine what caused the fire. Initial appearances, he said, indicate that stove ashes left on the stoop of a porch led to the incident.

The building has been condemned by Building Commissioner Nick Tobichuk, and will have to be razed.

The Red Cross is assisting the family with temporary housing and clothes.


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