Photo courtesy of Kiya Simmons
The Chester County Fire Department, Hilltop Department responded to a fire at 2035 Brown Cemetery Road at 7:51 p.m. Friday, Nov. 29, the home of Loving Paws Rescue. According to Chester County Fire Chief Stephen Moore, that evening the county fire department had three calls in a row beginning at 5:30 p.m. While at another fire on Old Friendship Road, the second dispatch came from Brown Cemetery Road in Luray. In total, firefighters were on fire calls for nine hours Friday evening. By the time firefighters arrived on the scene at Loving Paws, the house fire was fully involved, Moore stated. He said this left firefighters only to make sure that the fire did not spread further outward. There was a total of 16 Chester County firefighters on the scene. Six to seven Henderson County firefighters came to help, bringing five tankers and two engines to help. The Henderson County firefighters took care of the water shuttle during that time to help the Chester County firefighters. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) investigated the fire and on the morning of Tuesday, December 3, the Chester County Fire Department received notice of the determination that the home was too badly burned to find cause. This investigation is now officially closed by TBI.
