Fire Destroys Pennsylvania State Senator's Home

Upper Moreland Township Fire Marshal Robert Drennen said Greenleaf, his wife, their son, and a friend raced from the home after they were awakened by smoke detectors and saw flames on the first floor of the two-story house.

"With this wind, between the freezing weather, the house was consumed in a very short period of time," said Drennen, who estimated that 150 volunteer firefighters responded to the blaze.

Drennen said Greenleaf and the others were whisked into police cars, as the flames gutted the home in the 1500 block of Terwood Road.

In addition to the house blaze, rescuers had to fight smaller fires in nearby vacant lots.

"Some of the embers started two field fires, near other occupied homes," Drennen said. "Firefighters had their hands full."

No one was injured in the blaze, though one firefighter suffered a pulled muscle.