Two Herminie firefighters scrambled Monday morning to rescue a woman from her Sewickley Township home and extinguish a small fire inside.
The pair was first to arrive on Greensburg Pike after the 7:45 a.m. call and saw some light smoke around the home, which is connected to Pam’s Antiques, said Herminie fire Chief Eric Kline. He put out the flames on the second floor with a fire extinguisher.
The woman poked her head out of a second-story window and attempts to rescue her from the inside were unsuccessful, Kline said.
She dropped from the window into the arms of a firefighter waiting on a lower section of roof and then was taken to the ground on a ladder by Kline.
“We didn’t do too shabby,” he said.
Hutchinson fire Chief Bill Dull said he was glad they were quick to respond while his company and firefighters from several other area stations arrived. Herminie firefighters had just returned to their station after extricating a person from an overturned vehicle in Madison about an hour earlier. No one was hurt in that crash, Kline said.
A state police fire marshal is investigating the cause of the Sewickley Township flames.
“The fire was contained to a hallway, the corner of a hallway,” Dull said. “We don’t know for sure what started it.”
The woman was taken by ambulance to an area hospital, firefighters said.
