No injuries, little damage as a result of stove fire

Sanders County city and rural fire departments responded to a possible chimney fire call on Lyla Lane off of Lower Lynch Creek Road in Plains on Monday afternoon. No one was injured. From left, Zoe Banovitch and Lt. Marlin Cooper came out of the house as others went inside to investigate the fire's cause. "So far nothing is burning, but we are just checking inside of the walls," said Trevor Sheridan, a firefighter on the scene. The owner of the home, Matt Feliksa said that the cause was from a horizontal pipe going from his two month old wood stove to the chimney. "I didn't want to wait and see what was going to happen, so I called 9-1-1 once I started smelling some smoke," said Feliksa, who evacuated his son and dog. "I have been burning ponderosa wood very slowly since it hasn't been to cold lately," he said. "I'm guessing that the coal's build-up heated the styrofoam surrounding the pipe, which caused the smoke." There was no major damage to the home, according to firefighters. "The good thing that came of this incident is to bring community awareness about chimneys and wood stoves," said Feliksa.