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by Caron Gotcher
A fire started by a heat lamp in a pet iguana’s cage is believed to have destroyed two upstairs bedrooms of a home in St. Regis on Sunday night, according to St. Regis Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jerry Dockter.
“We are thinking it was the heat lamp in the iguana cage,” Dockter said Tuesday night. “We haven’t actually concluded that was the cause, but it all points to that heat lamp. The wall started on fire and the fire traveled through the two upstairs bedrooms.”
The home, located in the alley behind Pine Street near Floral Tree Pine, belongs to the Bevans family. No one was injured in the fire. The St. Regis Fire Department contained the blaze to just the two upstairs bedrooms, but water and smoke damage accounted for a lot of personal property loss, according to Dockter.
Very few personal items were able to be removed from the house before the fire department arrived on the scene. Dockter said that as of Tuesday night he wasn’t sure if a fund had been set up for the Bevans, but that donation jars have been set up in St. Regis businesses.
He said that he thought the Nyle Bevans family is staying with his father in St. Regis.
Volunteers Larry Kelly, Jared Dockter, Alex Worrell, Sabrina Managhan, Gary Dockter, Tim Palmer, Ronda Ramsey, Jeremy and Cat Tjensvold, Clint Wolf and John Schober all responded to the fire.
“We had a really good turnout,” said Dockter. “A lot of the volunteers showed up. The fire was contained to the two bedrooms.”
The pet iguana most likely knocked off the heat lamp while escaping from its cage sometime during the day. The pet was found at the downstairs entrance to the house. The pet iguana perished in the fire, according to Dockter.
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