Four houses. Fifty mile per hour winds. Seven minutes. Six towns.
This is what remains of one of the houses in yesterday’s fire in the Humarock section of Scituate. The blaze started in one home’s kitchen, and the strong winds whipped it and fed it; within seven minutes three houses were fully engulfed. Firefighters from six towns came together to fight the blaze. Two houses have burned to their foundations and two are most likely total losses when all is said and done.
SANDS (Scituate Alliance for Natural Disaster Services) is collecting assistance for the families. Checks made payable to SANDS to PO Box 342, Scituate MA 02066. Gift cards are also welcome.
My thoughts and prayers are with those who lost so much, but thankful no lives were lost.
One of those homes belonged to a friend of my son.. I’m sad for them, but they are safe and will rebuild.
To say four houses lost is lucky sounds odd, but it could have been so much worse. No serious injuries, no lives lost – and had the wind been blowing from another direction, half of Humarock could have gone up in flames.
To say four houses lost is lucky sounds odd, but it could have been so much worse. No serious injuries, no lives lost – and had the wind been blowing from another direction, half of Humarock could have gone up in flames.
We are so lucky to live in a town where people come together and help eachother – firefigthers and residents. I love Scituate and sending my thoughts and prayers to these families.
This is a sad sight to see, for an ordinary viewer from miles across the sea. I cannot begin to imagine the emotions of the folk who once used to call this shell home.
One of the families whose home burned down has experienced this before – it is a family home, and the current owner was about eight or so in the late seventies when her house burned down on Christmas Eve. They rebuilt, and she says she remembers her mother saying that all they lost were things, that people were important than possessions – how heartbreaking to have to apply those lessons again, and to have to share them with your own children a generation later…