Volunteer firefighters from three areas worked Sunday afternoon to stop a house fire in Pleasant Grove.

Pleasant Grove, Nash and C-5 Red Lick-Leary volunteer fire departments responded to a fire at 12 Dunham Drive. Firefighters found the outside of the house engulfed in smoke and a fire ignited inside along the wall, said Chief Joel Moss of the PGVFD.

The fire began after the homeowner cleaned out the fireplace and disposed of the ashes in a trash can inside the house. The homeowner believed the ashes were cold, but there were still live coals that ignited some of the t...

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