Dover responders called to house fire, fallen trees, and downed powerlines Sunday
DOVER (WJER) (Mar. 17, 2025) – It has been a hectic 24 hours or so at times for area first responders with a windstorm Sunday and a Dover house fire later in the afternoon.
There were scattered power outages resulting from about 20 reports of utility lines down throughout Tuscarawas County, including about a half dozen in Dover.
Fire Captain Mike Mossor says one call they responded to was for a tree that fell on two homes on East 5th St, causing extensive damage to the one residence.
He says firefighters were also called to reports of metal sheds that toppled and even a trampoline that blew and got tangled in some powerlines. Electric department workers handled that situation while the fire department contained the scene.
The fire department was later called to a house fire just before 4 p.m. in the 200 block of East 13th St. Mossor says the resident was cooking oil on a stove that overheated, and the flames spread out of the kitchen, basically destroying all the contents within the home.
Mossor says the resident made it out unharmed but a cat from the home went missing and two ferrets died in the fire.
Outside of where a cooking oil fire spread from the kitchen through an E 13th St home in Dover on Sunday, March 16