Fire trucks stuck in snow while house destroyed by fire

~Rural driveway inaccessible to fire trucks due to snow and ice~

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A chimney fire caused the destruction of a family's home in the southern part of Augusta County Tuesday afternoon. From the Waynesboro News Virginian:

Slick snow made a curvy rural driveway impassable to fire trucks in Greenville on Tuesday afternoon, leaving firefighters without water as flames ripped through a family home.
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Fire crews from Middlebrook, Stuarts Draft and Raphine, meanwhile, struggled with the snow-covered twists in the steep driveway.
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Fire trucks from Middlebrook and Raphine became stuck in snow as rescuers called for reinforcements in the form of backhoes, plows and the Virginia National Guard.

Flames shot from the 2,000-square-foot home and a tower of ever-blacker smoke rose high above the trees.

Firefighters at the house could do little more than watch. Those on the driveway took up shovels and worked with three backhoes to free the trucks that had become stuck — they did not reach the home for more than an hour.

The $276,000 house was gutted, leaving the parents and three children with no home. No one was hurt in the fire.