Albemarle Fire and Rescue was dispatched at 11:50 AM, on March 15, 2005, to a structure fire call at 475 Grassmere Rd. Firefighters engaged in a battle with the inferno.
Responding apparatus and command officers were:
Engines 41, 84, with Charlottesville City Engine 2, along with C89. Also on scene were Tankers 39, 49, 57, Brush Trucks 46 and 53, Crozet Station 5, F10,Department of Forestry, Fire Marshal 11 and U59.
"It was a three-story residental frame structure," said Captain Purcell McCue, "upon arriving on the scene it was discovered the backside of the house was totally engulfed."
Command sounded a third alarm. "It was all defensive," McCue said.
One female occupant escaped without injury.
Firefighters were able to save a garage and an apartment that was adjacent to the structure. It was an open u-shaped walkway that was the connector.
No firefighters were injured, the fire was marked under control at 1:30.
No cost estimate has been released at this time.
The fire is under investigation.
