JACKSON TOWNSHIP -- A family of five are without a home after a fire Saturday night in Monroe County.
Firefighters were called out to a home in Jackson Township after a fire started in the walls. Firefighters said the home was more than 100 years old, which made fighting the fire so much more of a challenge.
"We just couldn't get to the walls," said Chief Lester Wolcott of Jackson Township Volunteer Fire Company. "The fire was in the walls and there was four or five layers in between each wall of aluminum siding, wood slats, plank wood, styrofoam."
Wolcott added they believe the old home wasn't built to handle modern-day wiring and that's what started the fire, and made it spread so quickly.
"When I got on scene, the second floor was involved and in a matter of seconds, the wind just pushed it right down through the main floor right out the front door," he added.
Jewel Possinger lived at the home until 2010.
"It's really hard," she said about the home where she lived for 44 years. "When I found out about it [Saturday] night, I just couldn't believe it."
Linda Schlier owns the home now and rented it out to one of the family's longtime employees at Schlier's Towing. Schlier said when they bought the place, it was partly because it already meant so much to her husband.
"When he was young, he lived right down the road and the Possingers gave him his first job goofing around in the smokehouse," she explained. "It was very sentimental that we bought this place. [It was] just some history."
The LeBars, the family of five who lived in the home, are staying in a hotel and with family. Donations for the victims are being accepted at Schlier's Towing Company in Tannersville as well as at the Harley Davidson dealership in Snydersville.