Summit Road House Fire Contained [Updated]

The home’s A-frame construction made firefighting more difficult, said City Fire.

By Indy Staff January 4, 2016

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Summit Road House Fire Contained [Updated] — Firefighters said heavy smoke and flames could be seen early Monday morning from Alston Road, due to a vicious house fire at 828 Summit Road.

[Update, 3:03 p.m.]

Accidental roof exposure to hot pipes from a wood-burning stove — most likely over a long period of time — caused the Summit Road house fire, according to Santa Barbara City Fire Captain Gary Pitney.

The fire started outside of the home — in the metal chimney stove pipe — and traveled under the metal roof before catching onto the home’s wooden A-frame roof, causing approximately $742,000 in total damages, reported Pitney in a prepared statement. “Burn patterns indicated that the fire traveled under the metal roof for some time before it broke out near the front of the A-frame structure,” said Pitney.