The fire caused $125,000 in damage to the home at 61 Texel Drive.
4-30-13 - Springfield - Firefighters respond to the scene of a fire on Texel Drive in the city's Forest Park neighborhood. SPRINGFIELD - A power cord, believed to have been damaged by the weight of a refrigerator that it powered, was the cause of a blaze that heavily damaged a Forest Park neighborhood home Monday night and displaced two residents, according to the Springfield Fire Department.
“It looks like one of the refrigerator legs was directly on top of the cord,” Dennis Leger, aide to Commissioner Joseph Conant, said.
The fire at 61 Texel Drive started just before 8 p.m. It took firefighters about 25 minutes to extinguish the blaze in the large single-family house, Leger said.
It caused an estimated $125,000 in damages. The heat from the blaze also melted some siding on nearby garages at 67 Texel Drive and 52 Elwood Drive, which is in back of the house, Leger said.
The blaze was investigated by the Springfield Arson & Bomb Squad.