House Fire Sends One To Hospital In Avon Lake

AVON LAKE, OH — Avon Lake firefighters fought a blaze at a home on Schooner Court on Wednesday. While the fire was contained to one room of the house, one person did have to be taken to a local hospital for excessive smoke inhalation.

It's unclear what started the fire, but Assistant Fire Chief Jeremy Betsa told Patch that the blaze likely started on a mattress in the bedroom. "Upon our arrival, we had light smoke inside the residence," he said. "There was an obvious fire upstairs."

"It was a pretty quick event. It was confined to one room, a bedroom in the upstairs," Betsa said.

There wasn't a lot of fire damage done to the home. There was, however, smoke damage and some water damage done when firefighters extinguished the flames.

Firefighers were sent to the scene at about 1:51 p.m. and had the fire extinguished by 2:04 p.m. There were 10 Avon Lake firefighters at the scene and they got help from neighboring departments like Avon, Sheffield Lake and Sheffield Village. There were 26 total emergency personnel on the scene.

Bay Village EMS actually transported the one victim, an adult woman, to the Emergency Room. The woman was the only person home at the time of the fire.

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