Around 2 pm on December 10th, 2020, Sullivan Fire Department was dispatched to a Residential First Alarm, House Fire, reported to be across from the old Japan Store on Hwy H…as soon as I approached Wolf Run Farm I could see some black smoke up on the hill to the north. I arrived just before Pumper 854 with Captain Dave Konys` crew aboard, and after parking across H from the two story white farmhouse, I walked over behind the house to find two nice young men, who had been passing by, spotted the fire, alerted the residents, and then stayed to help fight the fire with them…continuing to help them put out fire where they could manage to fight it on their own with buckets of water and a garden hose with little pressure on it.

A smaller house that was located behind the main farmhouse, is what was on fire, and that fire once it became fully involved, created even more damage by catching a nearby henhouse on fire, melting the vinyl siding of the two story farmhouse from roof to ground, igniting a huge woodstove wood pile between the fire building and farmhouse, two large round bales of hay that was leading fire to the barn nearby that was also stocked with more hay, and yard grass…..

As Dave checked for fire extension to the back wall of the farmhouse, Davey Sumpter manned a preconnect hoseline and began knocking down heavy fire remaining in all areas…

More firefighters arrived with more trucks soon after Dave`s crew arrived and Nick White checked for extension to the enclosed back porch of the farmhouse…

while Davey continued to apply water to the large round bales…they usually require a lot of water to fully extinguish, with them so close to the barn, firefighters didn`t want to take any chances on having to return for a barn fire as well….

and then concentrated on the small house that had been fully consumed by flames prior to their arrival…

while other firefighters attacked the flames consuming the pile of stove wood….

About this time, firefighters from Bourbon, St Clair, and Beaufort-Leslie began arriving as well, and Gerald Fire Department with a tanker….

Thank God for the timing of those nice young men who were passing by when this happened, and their responsibility to stay and assist the residents, who I am sure would have fared a much worse fate had they not…