Firefighters set aside their holiday plans to put out a Christmas day blaze

LITTLETON firefighters set aside their holiday plans to put out a Christmas day blaze. Members of 11 departments made hasty departures from family get-togethers when a two-alarm fire was reported at 1:22 p.m. Sunday. First arriving crews from Littleton found a fully involved garage fire with flames extending into the house. The home was located at the end of a 1,200-foot-long driveway, requiring a rotation of tankers to shuttle water to the site. As a result of their efforts, the home was saved with some fire and water damage to a second-floor bedroom and the attic area. “It was kind of sobering to see the kind of destruction that can happen on Christmas,” Littleton Fire Chief Mike McQuillen said. “For everybody, it was a reality check of why we do what we do.”