Fire damages home in North Fort Myers

Fire crews responded to the scene of a house fire in North Fort Myers on Sunday morning. The home has extensive damage.

It happened at a home on Flynn Road near the intersection with Evergreen Road.

The North Fort Myers Fire Department said the fire was fully involved when they arrived on the scene. Fire crews worked for hours to put the fire out.

North Fort Myers Fire Battalion chief Mark Westra says the flames were high when they arrived. “When the first crews got here, the flames were already coming through the roof,” said Westra. 

Neighbors say they were startled by the fire and said the flames were 6-7 feet over the camper in the backyard. They say they heard multiple explosions. One of those neighbors said the explosions shook her home.

No one lived in the home, but there were people in campers and trailers in the backyard.

Randy Groll lives in the house just next door. He says he saw the flames, and that’s when he and a friend rushed outside to help. “They were probably six, seven feet above the camper over here. And so we’re trying to, you know, just water the side of her house down, you know, so there were no flames get over to her house and we got evacuated, we had to leave the house,” Groll said.

“That was kind of nerve-wracking because I thought, you know, eventually we’re just going to work its way down into the next camper and so on,” said Groll.