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Firefighter Jutte and a New Knoxville firefighter on the roof of the silo were thrown to the ground and Firefighter Garman blown off of the tower ladder platform and fell to the ground.įirefighters on the scene began to provide medical assistance for the injured and EMS responders were called to the scene. Pieces of the silo rained down in an area as wide as 100 yards from the base of the silo. The force of the explosion ripped the roof of the silo off and damaged the top of the silo. Three firefighters were either on the roof of the silo or in the platform of the tower ladder.Īs the uncharged hose was removed from the hatch (approximately 80 minutes after the ladder truck arrived on the scene) an explosion occurred. The hose was shut down and removed from the hatch. A decision was made to switch from the cellar nozzle to a fog nozzle. A handline with a cellar (distributing) nozzle from the aerial tower was operated into the roof hatch.

A piercing nozzle was inserted through an access door near the ground. The decision was made to attempt to extinguish the fire. Once on the roof, firefighters observed smoke coming from an open roof hatch. Upon their arrival on the scene, they helped set up the ladder and bring a member of the New Knoxville Fire Department to the roof of the silo. Prior to the arrival of the ladder truck, firefighters operated handlines into access doors at the base of the silo in an attempt to control the fire close to the bottom of the silo.įirefighter Garman and Firefighter Jutte responded as a part of the crew on the New Bremen/German Township Fire Department tower ladder quint apparatus. The decision was made to request mutual aid from the New Bremen/German Township Fire Department for a ladder truck. Roof access was limited to a small ladder that scaled the side of the silo.

They also used a thermal imaging camera and observed hot spots close to the base of the silo and about 15 feet above the base of the silo. They observed burning wood materials falling out of the bottom of the silo. The manufacturing occupancy had been the site of numerous previous fires in all areas of the operation.įirefighters observed smoke coming from a room at the base of the silo and from the top of the silo. The sawdust and wood scrap were accumulated in the silo and then conveyed by mechanical equipment for use as fuel for an on-site electrical generation and heating plant. The silo was 20 feet in diameter and contained sawdust and wood scrap from a manufacturing business.

Firefighters in New Knoxville responded to a report of a fire in an 80-foot tall concrete silo.

Slenderman the arrival gas for silo generator