A house on Smith Mountain Lake is a total loss after a fire on Monday afternoon.
Franklin County Public Safety said the call came in just before 3 p.m.
The house is located on Twin Coves Drive on the Franklin County side of the lake near Bridgewater Plaza. Authorities said that everyone inside the home was able to make it out safely but one firefighter did go to the hospital after a medical emergency.
When they arrived, smoke was billowing out of the house. Dozens of first responders worked from the ground and the water to put the fire out.
Crews said that the fire started in a shed and then made its way to the home. The fire remains under investigation.
A number of people in the area rushed over to try to help, including Brandon Crawley who works across the cove at Bridgewater Marina.
“When we saw it we were a distance away, it looked fairly big in the distance and then when I got closer it was pretty massive and the longer I was over there it just grew and grew and grew, I’ve never seen flames that high,” Crawley said.
10 News reporter Shayne Dwyer is at the scene of the fire working to learn more:
LIVE: Shayne Dwyer WSLS 10 News is live at a house fire on the Franklin County side of Smith Mountain Lake near Bridgewater Plaza
Posted by WSLS 10 / WSLS.com on Monday, March 8, 2021