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ABINGTON, MA (PLYMOUTH COUNTY) - Around 3:45 p.m. on Monday, February 8, 2010 the Abington Fire Department struck box 55 for a reported house fire at 95 Hersey Lane. First arriving companies reported heavy fire showing from the front of a two-story wood framed occupied raised ranch.

A working fire was ordered on-arrival bringing a Whitman engine to the scene and a Rockland engine to Abington's headquarters to cover. The total apparatus assignment on the scene of the fire was three engines and one ladder truck.

Companies stretched a line and extinguished the heavy fire on the exterior of the structure. When Whitman's engine arrived on-scene they stretched a hand line, worked on the exterior and then entered the structure. Firefighters worked diligently to knock down the fire, which appeared to have started in the basement area of the wood framed home.

The fire was knocked down within an hour, with some companies being released about an hour after that. The Massachusetts State Fire Marshal's office was notified and responded to the afternoon fire, which brought many on-lookers to the side street off of Route-58.

Near the beginning of the blaze, in a nerve-racking and tense moment, the electrical line from the pole to the house, burnt away from the home and landed on Abington Engine-3. No injuries were reported. The line was cut away by the National Grid crew who responded.

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