(Lake Park)– Fire this (Tues.) morning damaged a storage building and its contents in Lake Park. Lake Park Fire Chief Brandon Ehret tells KUOO news they were called around 8:40 am to the area of East 9th Street and Avenue A East…
“It was a Morton style building. We had heavy smoke coming out of the roof and the eves. We were able to make entry on the B side of the structure which would have been the northwest corner through a walk in door. We were able to make entry, knocked the fire down. It was a contents fire that had spread into the rafters, had gotten a few rafters burning up above. It got pretty hot in the roof. We had some roof steel starting to buckle pretty hard. Got the contents knocked down, were able to ventilate the building out so we could see what we were dealing with. Turned out it was a trailer that had some contents on it. We were able to vent the building and get the trailer pulled out with a skid loader.”
Ehret says they have a good idea as to how the fire started…
“Talking with the owner of the building, he arrived shortly after we got there, and basically the only power in the building was with a cord running to a little heater he had running in this little enclosed trailer, so we can pinpoint the origin to that space heater or whatever it was that got the fire started.”
The Spirit Lake and Milford Fire Departments assisted on the scene with additional manpower and equipment. Ehret says the Lake Park Street Department, Lake Park Police, the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office, Lake Park Rescue and Dickinson County Emergency Management also assisted on the scene.
Firefighters were on the scene a little more than an hour and-a-half.
No injuries were reported and Ehret says while there were other buildings in the area, none of them were threatened. He says the fire was discovered by a passerby who called 911.
