Hope firefighters tackle two twilight fires on Thursday

Hope firefighters tackle two twilight fires on Thursday

Hope firefighters were busy on Thursday morning (Aug. 27) as they responded to not one but two blazes before the sun had even risen. According to the Hope Fire Department, the first of these fires occurred at 3:40 a.m. on Othello Road. A car had already been thoroughly torched when the seven firefighters arrived, but the crews were able to extinguish the flames before they spread into the nearby brush. At 5:54 a.m., another fire was reported, th…