Lincoln firefighters have a busy day

Lincoln firefighters were called out three times for fires in two towns in a 24-hour period on June 26-27.

Early in the morning of June 26, a Todd Pond Road resident heard something strange outside their house and discovered a brush fire. Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the slow-moving fire, which eventually covered about an acre and started when a tree branch took down power lines.

Later that morning, Wayland firefighters were out handling a fire on High Rock Road in that town and Lincoln personnel responded to covered their station. Then that evening at 7:10pm, it was back to Wayland when the owners of a house on Emerson Road came home to find their house on fire. Crews from Lincoln, Weston, Sudbury, Framingham, and Natick as well as Wayland responded.

“Someone went inside prior to the Fire Department [arriving] to rescue the dog,” said Lincoln Fire Chief Brian Young. The dog was taken to a 24-hour vet and was apparently fine. The fire started in the kitchen and was mostly contained to that room, “though smoke and heat damage did a lot of damage to the other rooms,” he added.