Firefighters in Stokes County and the surrounding area spent Monday night and Tuesday responding to several calls, including three house fires, a building fire, a hazardous materials leak and a grass fire.

The first call came out before 5 p.m. Monday in the Sandy Ridge area of the county.

The fire was caused by a flue pipe in the basement of the two-story home, which spread up the wall of the home and damaged the first and second floors, according to the Stokes County Fire Marshal’s Office. A family was living in the home on N.C. 704.

Due to the large number of calls that kept the fire marshal’s office tied up Tuesday, no more information was available on the Sandy Ridge fire by press time.

Calls Tuesday started around 10 a.m. when firefighters were dispatched to a building fire on Dillard Road east of Walnut Cove.

Shortly after the Dillard Road fire was paged out, a freon leak at one of the Food Lion stores in King sent King firefighters and county Haz-Mat Team members to the southwestern end of the county.

Then Tuesday afternoon, firefighters were sent in two directions as a house fire was reported on Epperson Drive off N.C. 66 north of Rural Hall, which required the attention of multiple fire departments, and a fire involving a chimney on Faries Drive in the Francisco community.