A little after 3 pm on August 25th, I was working on editing up some photos I had taken when I heard Crawford County dispatch Bourbon Fire Department to a residential structure fire and figured Sullivan would be dispatched to assist, so after grabbing my camera, Onxy and I headed in the direction of Mound Road off Hwy C. I called Jim Bartle on the way up there, found out he was detained in Cuba on business, so I continued up there…told him I saw no smoke in that direction but it could be laying down in the valley to the north of there as well. In fact, as it was, I did not see smoke til I was right on top of the house that was on fire and Steve Kimker said he thought the same thing as he was driving out to the fire, also seeing no smoke of any kind. I backed up and parked out of the way, knowing there would be several fire trucks coming to the call, and walked up to the scene…a one story ranch style home with fire and heavy black smoke pouring from the breezeway attached to the north end of the home. Sullivan Fire Department arrived as I was walking up to it and were soon packing up to join Bourbons initial attack crew inside the house….

..and while interior crews were locating and handling the flames inside the home, the junior firefighters handled the outside fires….

…and during the inside attack, a pet rabbit was located and saved by firefighters….

Much of the home was saved as well…great job by firefighters on a very hot day I might add.