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Photo Credit: RONI GENDLER/advocate staff photographerThe Farek family console one another and survey their property as six acres of their property burn Wednesday evening. Paul Farek, the owner, was burning brush which spread into the junk yard.
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Firefighters needed about 50 minutes to control the blaze, which started after the homeowner burned brush in his back yard, Battalion Chief Shannon Martin said.
Firefighters were called at 4:17 p.m., Martin said.
Paul Farek Jr., the homeowner, said he fought the fire with a garden hose until fire trucks arrived.
"When it hits the rose hedges, it goes up 40, 50 feet," he said, describing the fire to his niece, Bonda Farek, who lives next door.
Bonda Farek noticed the fire as she drove home on Coletoville Road.
"I was, like, where is that black smoke?" she said. "Is that my house?"
The fire did come within feet of a trailer where a young family lives on the other side of Paul Farek's home, he said.
No one needed to be evacuated, and no one was injured, Martin said.
Bonda Farek greeted her uncle with a hug and a kiss when she saw him standing in his back yard, which was filled with smoke that smelled like melted plastic.
"We're just glad you're all right," she said.