Father of 3 says he’s grateful his family wasn’t inside when Chesterfield house caught fire
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A Chesterfield County man is grateful knowing his wife and three children are safe after his house caught on fire early Friday morning. According to Chesterfield Fire and EMS, just after 8:30 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 6, crews were called to the 6200 block of Aldersbrook Court for report of a house fire. When crews arrived at the scene, they found smoke coming from the home and fire in the kitchen. They were ultimately able to get the fire under control in 30 minutes. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Dog dead, person in hospital after fire in Chesterfield townhome "I've gotten a lot of calls from ADT [ADT Homes Security Systems] for a lot of different reasons -- but this one kind of struck me, because it was a fire alarm," said Michael Wolf, renter of the house. Wolf was hesitant to answer the call from ADT, as he says he had received many other calls of different matters that were less concerning -- but, at the sound of a fire alarm, he followed his gut. “It struck me as like, 'Why would it be fire alarms, rather than what it had been, which was sound sensors going off?'" Wolf said. Wolf is a husband and father of three children: a 17-year-old, 3-year-old and a six-month-old. Thankfully, none of them were home at the time. However, their family dog -- Truleigh Page Wolf -- was. She unfortunately died. Wolf's wife headed to the house after receiving the ADT notification. According to Wolf, she went into the home to try to save Truleigh. “She wanted to try to go up the stairwell, crawling all the way -- [she was] coughing too much, then came out," Wolf said. "I'm just glad the neighbor, at the last second said, 'Don't go back in' ... or else something [could have] happened to her, as well." Only On 8: ‘It felt like being like left behind,’ Prince George woman speaks after being hit by a car, left to fend for herself Wolf's wife was sent to Chippenham Hospital in Richmond for smoke inhalation. She was discharged hours after. Construction work has immediately begun on the home. In the meantime, the Wolfs will stay with other family members. "I'm just thrilled that they were not in the house," Wolf said. "We're [going] to try to move on from this and get a kind of a closure to it and [get] the things that we need to that are important, I think, to learn from it and move on."
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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A Chesterfield County man is grateful knowing his wife and three children are safe after his house caught on fire early Friday morning.
According to Chesterfield Fire and EMS, just after 8:30 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 6, crews were called to the 6200 block of Aldersbrook Court for report of a house fire.
When crews arrived at the scene, they found smoke coming from the home and fire in the kitchen. They were ultimately able to get the fire under control in 30 minutes.
PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Dog dead, person in hospital after fire in Chesterfield townhome
"I've gotten a lot of calls from ADT [ADT Homes Security Systems] for a lot of different reasons -- but this one kind of struck me, because it was a fire alarm," said Michael Wolf, renter of the house.
Wolf was hesitant to answer the call from ADT, as he says he had received many other calls of different matters that were less concerning -- but, at the sound of a fire alarm, he followed his gut.
“It struck me as like, 'Why would it be fire alarms, rather than what it had been, which was sound sensors going off?'" Wolf said.
Wolf is a husband and father of three children: a 17-year-old, 3-year-old and a six-month-old. Thankfully, none of them were home at the time. However, their family dog -- Truleigh Page Wolf -- was. She unfortunately died.
Wolf's wife headed to the house after receiving the ADT notification. According to Wolf, she went into the home to try to save Truleigh.
“She wanted to try to go up the stairwell, crawling all the way -- [she was] coughing too much, then came out," Wolf said. "I'm just glad the neighbor, at the last second said, 'Don't go back in' ... or else something [could have] happened to her, as well."
Wolf's wife was sent to Chippenham Hospital in Richmond for smoke inhalation. She was discharged hours after.
Construction work has immediately begun on the home. In the meantime, the Wolfs will stay with other family members.
"I'm just thrilled that they were not in the house," Wolf said. "We're [going] to try to move on from this and get a kind of a closure to it and [get] the things that we need to that are important, I think, to learn from it and move on."
