FRANKLIN TWP — Quick action by firefighters Sunday night saved a Ford Mustang and two motorcycles from going up in flames.

However, a number of tools in the same garage were destroyed. The 40-foot-by-40-foot wood garage also was badly burned.

A woodburner was blamed for the blaze near North Road in the township’s Mount Chestnut section that caused $20,000 to $30,000 in damages.

“We had a good enough stop on it that all the damage was up high,” said Chief Frank Wilson of the Prospect Volunteer Fire Company. “Some of the contents were lost but the most prized possessions were saved.”

A neighbor shortly before 7:30 p.m. spotted fire in the detached garage just 100 feet from Robert Long’s home and alerted the owner. Long was home but was unaware of the fire.

“He had been working in the garage all day and went in to eat dinner,” Wilson said of Long.

Some 40 to 50 volunteers from a half dozen departments joined the battle and soon had the blaze out.

Assisting the Prospect department were firefighters from Unionville, Connoquenessing, Meridian, Greenwood Village and Portersville.