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PAGE 6A BARROW JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2008 Public Safety REPORTS ON CRIMES. WRECKS. FIRES & COURTS Two teens burned in fire last week Winder Fire Department also responds to four calls Two Barrow County teens were seriously burned last week when they put a match to some gasoline. On Friday night around 10:14 p.m., Barrow County firefighters responded to a call about an outbuilding fire at 1035 Finch Road. But when units arrived, they discovered that two 13-year- old boys had been seriously injured after igniting gaso line with a match. Barrow Fire Chief Robert Post said both boys suffered second- and third-degree bums, one to the upper por tion of his body and the other to the lower portion. One boy was taken by his parent to Barrow Regional Hospital and then trans ported to Grady Memorial Hospital in stable condition. The other was airlifted in serious condition to Grady. The boys’ names and fur ther information about their conditions have not been released by fire department officials. OTHER COUNTY FIRES Several other county fires also kept firefighters busy and destroyed two homes. On Sunday, firefighters responded around 11 a.m. to 1428 Elliot’s Lane in Auburn where they found a two-story residential struc ture fully involved in flames. The home was completely destroyed. The family was not at home at the time of the fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Fire Investigation Unit, accord ing to a press release. Around 1 p.m. Monday, a fire destroyed a one-sto ry home on Lloyd Blakely Road, displacing a family of five. “It was 50-percent involved when we got there,” Post said. “No one was home at the time.” The cause of this fire also is under investigation. Last Lriday, a fire destroyed three outbuildings and a motor home. Just after 3 p.m., county fire units responded to a fire in the back yard of a home at 134 Plantation Road. The first unit arriving at the scene discovered an out building and a motor home on fire, with the flames moving toward a second outbuilding and toward a neighbor’s yard. “The fire was moving very fast across the yard and extending to a neighbor’s yard at 155 Scott Drive,” stated Lt. Scott Dakin in a press release, “firefighters responded to both residences and performed an aggressive attack to control the fire.” A total of three outbuild ings and the motor home were destroyed or damaged by the fire. There were no injuries. The cause of the fire is listed as a human act and is under investigation. WINDER FIRE REPORTS The Winder Fire Department responded to four fire calls between Nov. 4 and Nov. 7 each of which involved stove fires. The first call came at 5:15 p.m. Nov. 4 after an elderly homeowner at 165 Park Ave. left a flammable object on top of the home’s heated stove. “The kitchen area suffered heavy fire and smoke dam age, but the rest of the house had very, very minor dam age,” said Winder Fire Chief Ray Mattison, noting that a young couple next door is now assisting the victims. The second call came at 1:30 a.m. Nov. 6 about a fire at 128 Lily Drive. Fire crews arrived with in four minutes and found heavy smoke and flames at the rear of the house, Mattison said. “It started from the cook ing top of the stove. It was ruled accidental. Someone turned the stove on uninten tionally and had left some thing on top,” he said. “This house suffered mod- erate-to-heavy damage. The good thing was that no one was injured. Red Cross was contacted for that family and worked with them on find ing a place to stay. They were renting the home.” The city’s two other fires were minor but happened Friday within an hour of each other. The first was at 191 Bellview Street. That call came in at 9:17 a.m. The fire started after someone turned on the oven with a pizza box inside. “The oven was turned on accidentally, and the box caught fire,” Mattison said. “It smoked up the apartment but did very little damage.” An hour later, at 10:20 a.m., the city fire depart ment received a call from a resident at 184 Colonial Hills Road. “Upon our arrival, the fire was out. The individual had put the fire out. It started in the oven. We assisted in removing smoke and checked to see if the fire had gone past the oven.” Mattison said it is very unusual to have so many kitchen fires in such a short span of time. “We’re all living very busy lives. We have to focus on what we’re doing, especially in the kitchen around appli ances,” he said. “If you turn on an appliance, stay with it. 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