Fire destroys Sewickley Township home; no injuries reported
A fire destroyed a home in Sewickley Township, Westmoreland County, late Wednesday night.
Calls about the fire, located in a rural area on Orchard Drive near Herminie, came in at 11:08 p.m., according to Westmoreland County Public Safety. The house was fully engulfed shortly after 11 p.m., Tribune-Review news partner WPXI reported.
Video captured by a WPXI photographer showed part of the structure collapsing. No injuries were reported, the public safety official said.
The Red Cross was called to help the residents of that home, WPXI reported.
No other information was immediately available.
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to correct that Orchard Drive is in Herminie.
Justin Vellucci is a TribLive reporter covering crime and public safety in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. A longtime freelance journalist and former reporter for the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, he worked as a general assignment reporter at the Trib from 2006 to 2009 and returned in 2022. He can be reached at jvellucci@triblive.com.
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