Fire destroys century-old building
AVIS, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — Smoke billowed out of a building on West Central Avenue in Avis.
Firefighters said the father and son who rented an upstairs apartment made it out safely, as did the building owner who runs an antique shop downstairs.
Verna Bilbay lives across the street.
“I got up and looked out of the room, and I said, ‘uh, it’s right across the street, hun.’ All you saw was just smoke, just boughs and boughs of smoke,” Bilbay said.
Firefighters said the place went up in flames around 11:30 a.m. Thursday after the owner of the building was using a heat gun.