Firefighters from fire departments in southern Jackson County are shown battling a fire Tuesday morning at 104 Highland Ave. in Hoyt. It was reported that all the occupants of the house were able to exit the house, including one person who jumped to the ground from an upstairs window.

Crews battle two structure fires early Tuesday morning

 

Jackson County firefighters were busy Tuesday morning with a pair of structure fires occurring in the southern part of the county, Jack­son County Sheriff Tim Morse re­ported.

At about 5 a.m. Tuesday, sher­iff’s officers received a report of a structure fire at 13315 134th Road, about two and a half miles north­west of Hoyt. Fire departments from Hoyt, Mayetta and the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation re­sponded to the report and arrived to find a fully-engulfed trailer, Morse said.

“The structure was occupied at the time of the fire. However, eve­ryone was able to get out of the residence without injury,” Morse said, noting there were three people in the structure when the fire broke out.

Morse also noted that the struc­ture, consisting of “two trailers at­tached with an add-on” and owned by Loren Hill, was a total loss. Firefighters cleared the scene shortly before 9 a.m.

At about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, while fire­fighters were still fighting the fire north of Hoyt, sheriff’s officers re­ceived a call of a second structure fire, this time at a house located at 104 Highland Ave. in Hoyt, less than half a block of Royal Valley schools. Fire­fighters from the same three de­partments, as well as Soldier Township Fire Department, re­sponded to find the rear portion of the residence engulfed with fire.

Morse said all of the occupants of the house were able to exit the house, but one of the occupants was reported to have an injury after jumping to the ground from an up­stairs window before running back into the house to warn others of the fire. That occupant of the house refused medical treatment at the scene, he added.

The house, reported to have been owned by Cara Evans, is located in close proximity to Royal Valley’s ele­mentary and high schools, but high school principal Jim Holloman said the activity surrounding the fire did not disrupt students’ arrival or early morning activities at school. Morse later said some buses were rerouted to avoid conflict with firefighters, who cleared the scene at about 10:15 a.m.

A fire investigator from the sheriff’s office responded to both fires, as did Jackson County EMS personnel, Morse said. The cause of both fires remain under investi­gation, and the dollar amount of each loss remains unknown at press time.

The Holton Recorder

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Holton, KS 66436
Phone: 785-364-3141
 

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