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hour, and firefighters continued overhauling the house and extinguishing still-glowing embers until about 5:00 a.m. The structure was completely gutted, and one side of the house was left propped up by a few charred and partially burned studs which leaned at a precarious angle.
Firefighters from Sperryville, Washington and Flint Hill, along with the Sperryville Rescue Squad, responded to the alarm, but there was little they could do to save the house, Chief Wayland said. “It was completely involved when we got there,” he said. The chief explained that older homes, which often lack much insulation and were made of pine, burn quickly once a fire gets into walls and ceilings.
The attic space, which was open from one side of the house to the other, provides a vent for the fire once it climbs inside the walls. Once exposed to the oxygen in the air in the attic space, the fire flashes quickly across the attic, then works down into the other rooms from above.
With the kind of smoke generated by the fire as it smouldered inside the wall next to the chimney, Chief Wayland said, Mr. Mills and his family were lucky to have escaped unharmed.
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