Firefighters work four-alarm fire in Cooper County

A Cooper County house was a total loss after a fire Monday night.

The Cooper County Fire Protection District responded to the fire in the 9700 block of Chestnut Road after a person on I-70 called and said they saw smoke coming from the home.

Fire Chief David Gehm said crews arrived on scene to find heavy smoke coming from the home. They used thermal imagining cameras that revealed the house was too hot to enter and ventilated the roof so the fire could get oxygen and burn.

“We ended up with 49 firefighters, five different departments and 14 pieces of apparatus out here,” said Chief Gehm of the four-alarm fire. Crews used around 40,000 gallons of water to extinguish the flames.

There were no injuries. Chief Gehm said, “The people that lived here had just moved out two weeks prior and the owners were in the process of remodeling.”

As of 9:00 p.m. the scene was mostly clear. The Cooper County Fire Protection District said its crews would still be there for several hours cleaning up.