Grass fire destroys trailer house
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CHARLO — Lake County Dispatch called the Charlo Moiese Volunteer Fire Department at about 4:06 p.m. on March 20 to send them to a grass fire threatening a building. By the time firefighters were about halfway to the incident on Ninepipes Lane, dispatch called again to inform them that the building was on fire.
Due to a shortage of firefighters at that time of day in the Charlo area, Charlo-Moiese firefighter Shane Reum called in the Ronan Fire Department for mutual aid. With five Charlo-Moiese firefighters, eight from Ronan and approximately 4, 000 to 5,000 gallons of water, the fire was controlled. The building, an abandoned ’70s era trailer house, was unoccupied and was a total loss.
“Ronan was awesome,” Reum said, adding that all the firefighters worked as a team.
Firefighters used shovels when the trailer collapsed on itself to make sure water got beneath the bones of the building. They were worried about embers from the fire blowing into a field north of the fire area since there was wind out of the southwest, Reum said.