At 7:21 this evening, while the members of the department were out on company training, the 1st alarm was activated for a possible electrical fire at a duplex on the 400 block of Oakland Ave in the Borough. Chief Wright arrived and reported smoke coming from the back of the house. Truck 24's crew located and where able to contain the fire in a wall in the kitchen, with no extension to any other room or floor of the residence.
Units from South Greensburg, Carbon, Greensburg, Youngwood, Crabtree and Hempfield Twp. assisted on scene.
The fire was ruled accidental, electrical in nature.