The home received about $10,000 in damages.
SPRINGFIELD – A fire damaged the siding and roof overhang on a single-family home in the Indian Orchard section of the city at about 2 p.m. Sunday.
The blaze was started after the resident improperly disposed of ashes from his fireplace, Dennis G. Leger, fire department spokesman, said.
The home at 173 Hampden St., owned by Thomas Juzba, received at least $10,000 to the exterior. Residents were allowed to remain in the home, Leger said.
A resident placed a container of the ashes outside the house and later left. When he returned home he found the fire. The best way to dispose of fireplace ashes is to place them in a metal container, to prevent the possibility of warm embers kindling a fire, Leger said.