DOVER, Fla. — Emergency crews spent over an hour battling a two-alarm house fire on Friday morning after complex roof renovations complicated efforts to put out the flames.
Hillsborough County Fire Rescue dispatchers first received several 911 calls reporting the fire around 9:10 a.m. at 5103 W. Trapnell Road. The initial crew to arrive at the scene saw heavy smoke pouring out of the single-story home.
Firefighters stretched hose lines inside and found the fire burning throughout the attic. Once inside, crews ran into unexpected structural hurdles: the home had undergone a “roof-over,” an addition in which a second roof structure is built directly on top of the original…