Fire damages Rochester home; three firefighters injured

(File Photo of a Fire Background)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Rochester, PA) A fire damaged a home in Rochester today.

A Beaver County 911 supervisor said crews were dispatched to the 400 block of Harmony Avenue at about 9:15 a.m.

A WPXI photographer at the scene observed smoke billowing from the roof, where a large hole had formed.

The Rochester fire chief said three firefighters were injured while responding to the fire, no one who lived at the home was injured, and one cat was unaccounted for.

The injuries that the firefigthers suffered are not life-threatening.

The fire is believed to have started on the first floor in the kitchen. There was smoke and fire damage on all three floors of the home. The third floor was destroyed.