A couple of weeks ago, Sullivan was dispatched to a building fire at Cavern City Hideout near Stanton…I arrived shortly after the lead pumper pulled up and saw that it was a shed fire, attached to a residence which used to double as a restaurant and motel office…attached by way of a carport cover of sorts, that covered an outdoors wood furnace and two woodpiles..ashes left in a wheelbarrow caught the woodpiles on fire which caught the shed on fire by way of radiated heat from the wood piles, which also melted  the vinyl siding on the residence and would have caught the house on fire, but one of our Stanton firefighters was closeby when the alarm sounded. Jim Bay arrived shortly after the tones dropped and was able to knock down the residential fire from the radiated heat, prior to the arrival of others…

…in fact, Jim stayed on the garden hoseline and cooled the wood pile down as firefighters waited for water so they could concentrate on the shed fire….

…Jimmy Smythe arrived a little later and donned his gear and helped cool down the shed wall near the wood pile as interior firefighters continued to attack the fire inside the shed….

…and made a good stop on the shed itself…stopping the fire inside and saving quite a bit of equipment inside it….

… the juniors did a good job pulling apart the woodpile and totally extinguished that fire….