Pennsylvania Homeowner's Attempt To Eliminate Hive Sets House On Fire

A homeowner using gasoline to kill bees in the ground caught his house on fire Monday night.

Middleburg Fire Chief Butch Hackenberg said Leonard Goss poured the gasoline into the in-ground hive and flames shot up and caught the corner of the two-story wood-frame home on fire.

Firefighters from seven companies were called to the fire at 1353 Paxton St., in Paxtonville, Franklin Township, at 8:06 p.m.

Goss and his wife, Shirley, escaped unharmed, but they had to find another place to stay.

"It got under the siding and starting burning up the corner of the house," Hackenberg said.