No one was injured but two dogs died in a house fire Monday afternoon near the YMCA of Highlands County in Sebring. One dog survived.
The five-bedroom, one-story house, located on Fairlawn Drive near the corner of Lakewood Road, sustained more than $25,000 in damage, according to Billy Kingston, assistant chief of the West Sebring Volunteer Fire Department.
There was heavy smoke and heat damage through out the house, Kingston said.
Kingston said the fire started in the kitchen when the electricity was restored to the house.
A family of five, which was renting the home, was displaced. They were not there when the fire started.
Bernard Beursken said they were just moving in and added that furniture was all over the house. Beursken said there was a box on the stove.
It took 15 firefighters from West Sebring and Sebring to put out the fire.
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