{"id":12714,"date":"2025-03-13T03:07:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T03:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/?p=12714"},"modified":"2025-03-13T04:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T04:39:41","slug":"house-fire-131-meredith-2nd-of-2-suspicious-july-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/?p=12714","title":{"rendered":"House Fire 131 Meredith, 2nd of 2 Suspicious, July 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the day on Monday, July 1st, 2024, Sullivan Fire was dispatched to a first alarm at 131 Meredith Lane, and arrived to find a working structure fire, the second one two months apart. Bourbon, St Clair, Beaufort-Leslie, and Cuba Fire Districts were dispatched on the call as well. Heavy yellow- brown smoke was coming from the old garage attached to the east side of the house and the front door of the building, as well….<\/p>\n

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I took this photo above and then walked around to the front of the house where I found Captain Damon Sumpter and Firefighter Nick Via face to face with heavy fire in the attached garage….<\/p>\n

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AVI 68 Damon on Nozzle Just Inside Garage, Nick Goes to Get a Saw<\/a><\/p>\n

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…and they saw the heavy smoke turn from white to gray to brown to black…as the fire progressed in the attached garage and behind them in the house…<\/p>\n

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AVI 77 Stretching 2nd Line & Muffled Explosion Rear of Garage<\/a><\/p>\n

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…and soon after, Beau Kick and Jordan Shortt showed up to help out with fire attack, packing up at the front door and preparing to enter the house, as Damon continued to work in the doorway of the garage….<\/p>\n

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…and it was about this time, that firefighters encountered water service issues and had to take a time out….<\/p>\n

AVI 103 Waiting for Water to Make Entry Into House With 2nd Line<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kyle walked around to find another way into the house, followed shortly after by Beau and Jordan with the blue hoseline. Nick relieved Damon on the hoseline at the side door to the garage….<\/p>\n

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…while the second crew was near the back of the house trying to make entry, Damon and Nick moved back and forth from the garage to the front door of the house and then back to the garage again….<\/p>\n

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I walked back around the east side of the house and discovered St Clair and Cuba Firefighters were on scene now…<\/p>\n

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Cuba Fire Chief Mike Plank working with his son, Firefighter Brandon Plank at the front of the attached garage….<\/p>\n

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…and then I walked over to the west side to check out the display of fire trucks and Engineers pumping water to the fire crews…<\/p>\n

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22 days later, the new owners of this building, had it torn down with heavy equipment, removing the fire hazard once and for all.<\/p>\n

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During the day on Monday, July 1st, 2024, Sullivan Fire was dispatched to a first alarm at 131 Meredith Lane, and arrived to find a working structure fire, the second one two months apart. Bourbon, St Clair, Beaufort-Leslie, and Cuba … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fires-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12714"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12760,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714\/revisions\/12760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}