Butler Township volunteer firefighters disconnect a fire hose and prepare to leave the scene of a house fire on Dubbs Lane in Butler Township on Sunday, Sept. 8. William Pitts/Butler Eagle

BUTLER TWP — One person was injured as a result of a fire at a home on Dubbs Lane in Butler Township on Sunday evening, Sept. 8.

The fire was reported shortly before 6:15 p.m., and led to police closing traffic on the adjoining Mercer Road. According to Michael Schmidt, assistant fire chief of the Butler Township Volunteer Fire Department, the damage to the home was mostly contained to one room, and firefighters had the blaze under control in 15 minutes.

“The state fire marshal is coming out to determine the cause of the fire,” Schmidt said.

The injured person, who was the only occupant in the home at the time of the fire, was taken to AHN’s West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh.

In addition to the Butler Township, fire departments from the Butler Bureau of Fire, Center Township, Oakland Township, Oneida Valley, Penn Township, Unionville and the VA Butler Fire and Emergency Services responded to the scene, as well as Butler Township Police and the Butler Ambulance Service.

Volunteer firefighters head back toward their trucks after a house fire on Dubbs Lane in Butler Township on Sunday, Sept. 8. William Pitts/Butler Eagle

Units from Unionville and Butler Township are two of the many that responded to a house fire on Dubbs Lane in Butler Township on Sunday, Sept. 8. William Pitts/Butler Eagle