Vacant house burns in Cumberland, RI

On July 25, 2011, an engine company on the air noticed a large column of black smoke in the sky and notified fire alarm. Upon a several minutes of trying the locate the source, a call came in for a vacant house on fire on Tower Hill Rd around 10:30am.

The house was set back a few hundred feet and was fully involved. A tanker taskforce was requested because there aren't any hydrants in the area. Hose had to carried from the street through the overgrown driveway to the fire.

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[Heyde1979]

its not ok to houses set on fire but that is what happens to vacant houses

[carolm7ri]

What makes people think it was ok to set fire to a historic house like this is beyond me. This house was built 1766 and survived all these years just to be destroyed by thoughtless people.