A fire in a house under construction in a new development in rural Marion Township at 3227 Grant Road S.E. was reported at 09: 25 today, according to a Rochester Fire Department press release.
Timothy Klubertanz, the owner of the home, arrived at the construction site this morning and noticed smoke at the top of the entry door. He opened the door and was met by thick smoke on the main floor. He retreated and dialed 911.
Rochester firefighters were sent. Four fire companies and two water tankers responded to the fire.
Fire crews entered the house using an infrared camera and located a pile of burning material on the main floor. They also noticed two large holes through the floor in the vicinity of the fire origin. The fire department extinguished the fire using a hose line. The fire had burned through a large part of the trusses that hold up the main floor, making the main floor structurally unsafe. No injuries were reported.
The cause of the fire is considered suspicious. The fire is being collaboratively investigated by members of the Rochester Fire Department’s Fire Marshal’s Office, the Minnesota State Fire Marshal, and the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Department.
Damage was estimated at $20,000 to $30,000. The home is being built by Castlewood Homes.
A small fire Tuesday evening in the mezzanine projection room of Cinemagic Theaters in west Rochester led to the evacuation of one of the theaters, according to a fire department report.
No one was injured.
A large amount of smoke was reported in the projection room after a fire started inside a power supply within the projector. Damage was limited to the machine. Employees used a portable fire extinguisher to put out the fire, which was reported at 9:42 p.m.
Damage was estimated at $1,500. Just the one theater of the complex was affected.
Associated Press
ATWATER, Minn. — A gas leak sent flames 30 feet in the air at an ethanol plant cooperative near Atwater.
Nine fire departments were called at about 7 a.m. Saturday to the Bushmills ethanol plant, about a mile west of Atwater. It was extinguished about 8:45 a.m.
Willmar Fire Chief Marv Calvin says the plant was not on fire and no ethanol burned.
Fire fighters shut off the natural gas line and allowed the remaining gas in the supply lines burn off. Some unleaded fuel also burned off.
No one was hurt. Officials planned to investigate the cause.
The Bushmills ethanol plant’s Web site says it is a cooperative made up of 415 farmers. The plant began running on December 30, 2005 and produces about 49 million gallons of ethanol every year.
A fire alarm at the Rochester-Olmsted Government Center forced an evacuation just before 8:30 a.m. today.
Firefighters are at the scene of a garage and house fire in the 1600 block of 28th Street Southeast in Rochester.
The fire was reported at about 3 p.m. Sunday.
Lightning damaged a house at 826 N.E. 15th Ave. tonight, at about 5:15 p.m. The strike broke three windows, knocked off some siding, damaged wiring and plumbing, and blasted through some glass structural blocks beneath the house, according to a Rochester fire official. The preliminary damage estimate by the fire department was $5,000 to $10,000. Firefighters observed several holes in the ground, caused by the movement of electricity between a tree and the house.
Family members were in the house when it was struck, but no one was injured.
A strange glow in the ceiling prompted a boy to wake up his mother early Wednesday morning.
Fire Marshal Vance Swisher said the glow was a fire in the ceiling fan in the bathroom of the boy’s apartment at Essex Apartments at 1019 41st St. N.W.
Swisher said firefighters were called about 1:35 a.m. today, but the fire already was out when they arrived.
After being awakened by her son, the mother went to check on the strange glow. She saw something falling from the ceiling to the toilet, ran outside and woke up a neighbor who grabbed a fire extinguisher and put out the fire.
Swisher said this is the second time in recent weeks that they have been called out to ceiling fan fires at the apartment complex.
The Red Cross provided the individuals affected with food and lodging.
The state fire marshal is investigating an early-morning fire that destroyed a new house in southwest Rochester.
The fire was reported at 5:42 a.m. Sunday, in a residential area under construction. Officials there valued the home at $460,000.
No one was hurt. Little remained of the house other than the front steps and remnants of a wall.
– State fire marshal investigates rural house fire
Rochester firefighters responded to an alarm at Mayo Clinic’s Gonda Building at 12:25 tonight. They found no fire conditions. An alarm was found to be faulty.
RED WING — A fire destroyed two rooms of a home on the east end of Red Wing on Wednesday afternoon. No one was injured.
Ronald Rainwater said he left his residence at 302 E 7th Street to go shopping. He returned home when a neighbor alerted him that his house, which he rents from Dave Furlong of DF Property Management, was on fire.
The Red Wing Fire Department responded to the call at about 1:30 p.m.
