One taken to hospital after Muddy Creek Township fire
MUDDY CREEK TWP — One person was taken to the hospital after inhaling smoke from a fire that burned down a garage Friday afternoon, Sept. 6.
Nate Blackwood, chief of Prospect Volunteer Fire Department, said the garage at 661 Yellow Creek Road was a total loss from the two-alarm fire, as was a truck parked inside it at the time.
After receiving the dispatch call for the fire before 2 p.m. Friday, crews arrived on scene to see the unattached garage engulfed in flames, the heat burning the siding on the nearby house and the woods.
Blackwood said the crews had a bulk of the fire knocked down within 15 minutes.
“Our main concern was protecting the exposure and then knocking the bulk of the fire down in the garage,” he said. “We never lost water; we had a fill site set up on a farm on Ragan Road as well as hydrants on Stone Church Road, so we had water just fine on both ends of the fire.”
It started raining in the area of the fire after the flames were under control, which Blackwood said helped curb the risk of the fire spreading to the woods.
Numerous fire companies responded to the fire, and they were preparing to leave the scene at around 3 p.m.
