GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska (KSNB) – A house in southeastern Grand Island was destroyed in a fireplace early Monday morning.

The Grand Island Fireplace Division responded to the 520 Midaro Drive dwelling hearth at 6:07 am. The house is the residence of Tom Edwards, proprietor of Tommy’s Household Eating places.

The fireplace was outdoors the constructing when the primary crew arrived. Flames and smoke had been seen popping out of the home for miles.

The Grand Island Fireplace Division and different forces are on the scene of a giant home hearth.

One drawback for the firefighters was that there have been no hearth hydrants within the space, in order that they routinely obtained mutual assist from the Grand Island Rural and Doniphan and Alda Volunteer Fireplace Departments. They carried him six or he seven tankers of water.

“As a result of magnitude of the fireplace, with out sufficient hydrants, we can’t convey sufficient water to combat the fires within the constructing.

He mentioned this was uncommon on this metropolis as the gap we’ve got to journey is 2 blocks. He mentioned there are some addresses within the metropolis which have this drawback, so these addresses are saved on the pc, so computerized mutual assist is invoked when delivery.

They had been operating about 1,000 gallons of water each minute to place out the fireplace.

He mentioned the climate situations had been additionally unhelpful and the water was making fairly good ice hazards, so he mentioned he was attempting to salt as a lot as doable.

The fireplace was extinguished after about two hours.

Hymer mentioned the home was utterly misplaced, however so far as he knew, everybody left dwelling safely.

He mentioned the subsequent step could be to launch an investigation to find out the reason for the fireplace.

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