MONTAGUE â A blaze in the early hours of Friday morning devastated an unoccupied seasonal home and all of its contents.
According to the fire report provided by the Lowville Volunteer Fire Department Chief Joe Austin, the house at 6730 Sears Pond Road owned by Eileen Pretre was already on fire when a passerby called 911 just before 5 a.m.
The structure was fully involved when the Lowville Department arrived at the scene.
âFire crews extinguished the fire from a defensive stance as the building had already collapsed before arrival,â the report stated. âFirefighters from the three departments worked through the bitter cold temperatures to fight this fire.â