Yesterday morning, a four-alarm fire destroyed three homes in York City and displaced seven adults and three children. Bill and John covered the fire itself and the immediate aftermath. This morning, I headed over there to see if anything else was happening.
At first — not much.
© 2011 by The York Dispatch. The interior of Edward and AnnaMae Foller's home suffered severe water damage from the firefighting efforts at the adjacent rowhouse on the 600 block of Wallace Street on Tuesday, April 26, 2011. The Follers -- Edward is 77 and AnnaMae is 75 -- had lived in their home since 1958 but are now staying in a hotel suite while their home is checked for moisture levels from the fire hoses. The Follers' home was protected from the blaze by a brick wall.
The fire had destroyed three rowhouses on the 600 block of Wallace Street. The house adjacent to those three had suffered water damage from the fire hoses, so I looked around in the house and followed the restoration technicians at work in there.
© 2011 by The York Dispatch. Belfor Property Restorations technician Dylan Simkins checks the moisture content of the third-level ceiling of Edward and AnnaMae Foller's home on Wednesday, April 27, 2011.
© 2011 by The York Dispatch. Belfor Property Restorations technician Dylan Simkins checks the moisture content of the third-level floor of Edward and AnnaMae Foller's home on Wednesday, April 27, 2011.
Then I went back outside, and found the Follers themselves talking to another Belfor technician. Then a very pregnant woman approached us as we talked, and I quickly learned that she was one of the displaced residents. Then — well, that’s another blog post coming up soon.
© 2011 by The York Dispatch. Two sooty handprints are imprinted on an upright wall above the stairwell that connects the second and third floors of Edward and AnnaMae Foller's water-damaged home on the 600 block of Wallace Street in York City on Wednesday, April 17, 2011.
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