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When firefighters drove up at the crime scene for the first time, the house had broken up and the roof and the second floor broken in, said a fireman. Philip Holmes/Sun Gazette

Jersey Shore – Flames consumed a very old free farmhouse in the Fillman Road on Tuesday morning in a remote area of ​​the Watson township, about eight miles north of the district.

The two -story structure in the 838 Fillman Road was contained in flames, as firefighters arrived at 7:40 a.m., said Shane Newvine, deputy head of Jersey Shore Ems and at the scene.

There were no reports on injuries and the cause of the fire continues to be examined.

“We could see a fireball at the end of the lane”, “ Said a fireman who refers to where the graves cut with the very narrow Fillman Road with two narrow Fillman road.

“The roof and the second floor had already collapsed to the first floor when we arrived.” Said Newvine. It didn't take long for sections of the two floors to land in the basement, he added.

Smoke pillows from a free farmhouse in the Fillman Road in Watson Township on Tuesday morning. A fireman said that the structure had to burn some time before discovering the fire. Philip Holmes/Sun Gazette

Strong smoke is about a mile from the scene, he said. The name of the owner was not known.

Numerous fire brigade companies from Lycoming and Clinton Counties were sent to the multiple alarm fire because tankers were needed for water because the ponds were frozen in the area.

Newvine explained the fire under control at 8:10 a.m., but he expected the crews to be on site for a while. “There is a lot of overhaul that needs to be done”, “ Newvine said, which means that firefighters will spend a large part of the morning with tearing apart the rubble and spanning hot dots so that the fire does not develop again.

This was the second day in a row on which the firefighters of the Jersey Shore Area were sent to a structural tax. On Monday afternoon, they were sent to a house fire in the 200 block of the Locust Street in the district, where flames spread from a burning pile of garbage in the courtyard to the outside of a house.

Fire engineers from Lycoming and Clinton Counties Line Fillman Road in Watson Township during the fire on Tuesday morning. Philip Holmes/Sun Gazette