(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of Gavin Thunberg)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Hopewell Township, PA) Firefighters responded to a kitchen fire at a home on Crestmont Drive in Hopewell Township shortly after 5:30 p.m. yesterday. 

The Hopewell Fire Department was dispatched to the residence after reports of a fire inside the home. While crews were en route, law enforcement officers arrived and reported smoke coming from the structure, prompting officials to upgrade the response to a second alarm. 

Firefighters arrived and quickly worked to bring the fire under control. Crews encountered hoarding conditions inside the home, which complicated firefighting operations. 

Firefighters also conducted extensive overhaul operations to ensure the fire was fully extinguished and had not spread to hidden areas of the structure. 

No information on injuries or the cause of the fire was immediately available.