Photo courtesy of Jay Kissel The Tygart Valley Fire Company responded to a single family home fire in Valley Bend Saturday afternoon. The fire started in an addition to the house. Firefighters were able to contain it before it spread throughout the home.

VALLEY BEND — A two-story residential single-family home sustained significant damage after a structure fire in Valley Bend Saturday afternoon.

At approximately 2 p.m., the Tygart Valley Fire Company was called to a house fire in the Valley Bend area of Randolph County. Once on scene, firefighters discovered that the fire was limited to one portion of the home.

“There was an addition on the house and that is where the fire was when we arrived on scene,” Tygart Valley Fire Company Chief Noah Gilroy told The Inter-Mountain. “Although the fire was in the home’s addition, the rest of the structure did sustain significant water damage. A woman at the residence said she heard a loud boom upstairs and when she went up to check, it was on fire.”

Gilroy said the TVFC was on the scene battling the blaze for close to two hours. He added that the cause of the fire appears to be accidental.

“We were probably there for one and a half to two hours,” Gilroy said. “The area where the fire started was pretty burned up and no foul play is suspected. Everyone got out of the home and no one was injured.”

The Tygart Valley Fire Company, who was the lead responder at the scene, has had multiple structure fire calls in the last month. Back on Dec. 11, the TVFC responded to a garage fire in Valley Bend that was fully engulfed. Two vehicles inside the garage burned up as a result of the blaze.

“Calls typically pick up this time of year because of flue fires, but we’ve had two structure fires in the past month,” Gilroy said. “That’s more than usual for us.”

Gilroy said the Tygart Valley Fire Company will be receiving a new fire truck sometime around the end of this month. The new truck is the first one the TVFC has purchased since 2005.

“The new truck we are getting is a 2025 Freightliner Commercial Pumper,” Gilroy said. “It was a demo that we bought and we sent it off to get a couple things done that we wanted done to it.

“It will be replacing a 1998 truck, and the new one has a lot of updates in technology that we didn’t have with our older ones.”

Photo courtesy of Don Gilroy
A home in Valley Bend sustained significant water damage after a fire broke out in one of the home’s additions Saturday.