Firefighters were called to 513 Ninth Avenue in Stanley on Sunday for a fully engulfed home fire with burning vehicle.
Called in at 8:15 p.m., the fire saw full response by Stanley and Boyd, with tenders from Thorp.
“It was a fully involved structure fire,” Stanley and Boyd Edson-Delmar Fire Chief Ron Patten said of the fire on Ninth Avenue. Stanley Police secured the street, with two Stanley tenders arriving after 8:20 p.m. and a pump station set up in Chapman Lake near the dam. The Central Water treatment Plant is currently undergoing maintenance through the start of August, leaving only the Northwestern Water Treatment Plant in operation. As such, pumping water from
Chapman Lake is being used rather than hydrants to not draw down the city’s water supply.
The home, registered to Shauntia Hale, was a complete loss, along with two vehicles parked in the driveway. Patten said the cause is still under investigation, although the fire is believed to have started in the garage.
“We know it started in the garage, but not sure what from because there were no vehicles in the garage,” he said. The owner was not home at the time of the fire and no one was
transported, though Patten was unsure regarding pets. The fire melted siding and caused damage to the neighbor’s home as well. As the home is a total loss the Red Cross had
been contacted to help moving forward.
Patten said that one firefighter was transported to Aspirus Stanley for heat exhaustion while another was released to help with a call at Cadott. Fire personnel were on scene in
Stanley until midnight, with gas and electric being shut off by the gas and power company. Also taking place over the weekend but on Saturday, Boyd-Edson-Delmar Fire was called
out to two mutual aid calls, one for an attic fire at 624 North Broadway and another for a garage fire near Cadott on 20th Avenue. The Stanley call came in at 8:14 p.m. for North
Broadway, while the call from Cadott came at 8:42 p.m. Boyd-Edson-Delmar sent a tender and engine to Stanley, with five fire personnel that had responded to Stanley and
set up a fill site at Chapman Lake released to Cadott, where the fire was reportedly entering the house. The last two Boyd personnel were then released to Cadott in a personal vehicle, with crews on scene at Cadott until 11 p.m. There were no transports from either fire. Patten said in the event of mutual aid calls in close succession like on Saturday that, “we just split up.” Both Boyd-Edson-Delmar and Stanley have two fire
engines, with one engine split off for mutual aid, based on whoever is closest to a call.