BROWN COUNTY — A family has been forced from their home after a fire destroyed it in Ohio on Tuesday.
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Firefighters responded to a Brown County home around 11 a.m. on reports of a house fire, according to our news partner WCPO TV in Cincinnati.
Nobody was home when the fire started, according to Ripley Volunteer Fire officials.
“The fire started in the back,” said Tony Pfeffer, Ripley Fire Chief. “We had all the mutual aid departments help us with the tankers and stuff. The operation went really well.”
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The Red Cross has been contacted to assist the homeowner, a mother of three, WCPO said.
Pfeffer said there were challenges in extinguishing the fire.
“We’re in a rural area with no fire hydrants, so our water supply comes from tankers and dump tanks,” he told WCPO. “So, we rely on mutual aid just for water and manpower for a fire like this”
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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