LISTEN TO INTERVIEW WITH EPSD CAPT. DARIN HUNTER
Audio PlayerFire broke out in a downtown Escanaba home late Monday night.
Escanaba Public Safety Captain Darin Hunter says the call came in at about 10:50 p.m. to come to the two-story home at 222 South 10th Street.
When crews got there, flames were shooting from the second story of the home, and there was a report of two people trapped inside. Hunter says his officers were able to get the residents out safely and there were no injuries.
“It was another good save by our crew,” Hunter told RRN News at the scene early Tuesday morning. “Our officers arrived on the scene and helped them out the back. The bottom level on the south side, and the second story was fully-engulfed. Ford River Township was called in to assist. It was a good knock-down. Nobody’s injured, so that’s a good thing.”
When crews got there, they attacked the fire with foam, rather than water.
“The foam we have on our primary unit,” Hunter said. “We don’t have any foam on the ladder truck, we just used water. And at that point, on the ladder truck, we had to get up on the second story, cut a couple holes in the roof, and the vents, to make sure it didn’t get up in the attic space. At that time, we’re just flushing with water.”
Crews were on the scene until about 1:00 Tuesday morning.
Hunter says they’ll return to the scene in the daylight to try to determine a cause for the fire.
It’s the third house fire in the city in the last three weeks, with another at 416 First Avenue South on the early morning of Aug. 12 that killed two dogs. Another fire happened at 1406 Sheridan Avenue, also late at night, on Aug. 19.
