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JERSEY SHORE – Two men were temporarily displaced Monday afternoon when embers from an outdoor pile of burning trash – fanned by the wind – set fire to the west side of their home at 247 Locust St., according to fire officials.

No one was injured when the fire broke out about 1 p.m., according to Ethan Goodbrod, chief of the Citizens Hose Company.

Lycoming Regional police Sgt. Brian Fioretti was the first to arrive on the scene. “There was a lot of black smoke rolling out of what appeared to be the side of the house,” Fioretti said.

It turned out much of the smoke was coning from a pile of debris one of the residents was burning, fire officials said.

Embers from the fire spread to some brush and the fire quickly spread to the side of the home. However, the flames were extinguished before much interior damage was done, Goodbrod said. Damage was under $10,000. The local chapter of the American Red Cross was assisting the displaced tenants, whose names were not released.

The fire that damaged a home at 247 Locust St. in the borough began in this pile of debris that one of the residents was on Monday afternoon. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette

Besides the borough’s two fire companies, firefighters from Antes Fort, Avis, Woodward Township and Old Lycoming Township responded to the scene.

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