WAKEFIELD, MASS. (WHDH) - Crews in Wakefield quickly stopped a fire in its tracks Wednesday afternoon after it broke out inside one of the walls, officials say.
Firefighters responding to a report of smoke in a single-family house on Outlook Road about 4:41 p.m. found a fire extending inside a concealed wall space on the exterior.
Crews used a chainsaw to open the outside wall on both sides of the chimney before extinguishing a small fire was discovered in the concealed space.
There were no reported injuries.
The fire was determined to have been caused by the homeowner, who had been using a propane torch to burn off vegetation he was growing around the exterior of the home, officials say.
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