Around noon on January 31st, 2023, Sullivan firefighters were dispatched to a trailer fire near Ditch Witch on the South Service Road west of Sullivan. They arrived to find the trailer fully involved, the male resident out of the trailer but his dog remained inside and unaccounted for. Firefighters began their attack at the front door and worked their way to the back of the trailer, heavy fire inside and underneath…Jacob Dace on the hoseline with Captain Damon Sumpter backing him up….
AVI 132 Mobile Home Fire 1541 S Service Rd West Sullivan
Jacob knocked down the fire, then turned the hoseline over to Damon, and began pulling the tin siding off the trailer…Joe Johnson soon came to assist him…
AVI 145 Damon on Nozzle as Jacob Dace & Joe Johnson Pull Siding
Bourbon Firefighters arrived, bringing a pumper and a tanker with them, and by now, Sullivan firefighters were setting up a portable drafting tank for a water supply. Bourbon`s firefighters wear black turnout gear, a couple of their guys took the second hoseline and went around to the back of the trailer shortly after arrival to attack fire on that side…
AVI 157 Bourbon Firefighters Assisting On Scene Now
…and soon after, heavy fire began venting from the rear of the trailer on the Sullivan firefighter side….
…so Damon stretched the line back to the rear of the trailer and turned it over to Bourbon firefighters….
Bourbon knocked down the fire and then took the hoseline to the other side of the trailer to hit the fire over there….
…and then the black smoke began belching out the Sullivan side of the trailer once again…
AVI 175 Black Smoke Picks Up at Back of Trailer
I walked over to the Bourbon side of the trailer to see how bad the fire was on that side and found out why Bourbon didn`t stay long on that side…shotgun shells were going off just inside the rear door….
AVI 178 Fire Vents Out Back Door & Shotgun Shells Popping Off
Needless to say, I didn`t stay over there very long, either. I walked back to the Sullivan side and found Bourbon firefighters dousing down the middle and front of the trailer once again…
AVI 197 Bourbon and Cuba Firefighters On Scene Assisting
and Sullivan firefighters Jacob Dace and Joe Johnson pulling more tin off the walls…
