Westfield firefighters Lee Kozikowski and Steven Makos hose down a burning house at 75 Wildflower Circle Saturday night. (Photo by Liam Sheehan)
WESTFIELD – A fire Saturday evening at 75 Wildflower Circle has been found to not be ‘suspicious’ in origin, investigators report.
Westfield Deputy Fire Chief Patrick Egloff said yesterday afternoon that he and a state police investigator attached to the Massachusetts Fire Marshal’s office investigated the cause of the fire and found it was the result of an electrical malfunction.
He went on to say that the house was extensively damaged.
“It may not be a total (loss) but it would take a ton of money to fix it” he said.
Nobody was injured Saturday evening when city firefighters responded to the alarm and found a fire burning in the attic area.
Nobody was at home at the time of the blaze which broke through the roof before firefighters were able to extinguish the fire.
Egloff said that the bulk of the damage caused by the fire was confined to the upper floor of the two story single-family house.
While the city firefighters were occupied by the fire, firefighters from West Springfield and Holyoke traveled to the city to stand by at the Broad Street headquarters in case any other emergency occurred in the absence of city firefighters.
