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100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-01-2015

At 19:13 Northeast Allen County Fire and Ems stations 170, 140, 240. Saint Joseph Twp. station 70 and Woodburn Fire department station 160 were dispatched to 13340 main street between 2nd and 3rd street for a building fire. Bringing 2 ladders 6 engines 3 heavy rescues, 4 tankers and 3 ambulances and 50 volunteers.  

 

At 19:15 Northeast Ladder 147 arrived on scene of a 100' x 100' 7 story old grainy converted into a saw mill on the 1st floor fully involved.

 

At 19:16 F.A.S.T. Fire Arson Specialized Team requested. Along with New Haven and Adams Twp. Full response which brought 2 Engines, 1 Ladder, 1 Heavy Rescue with 20 firefighters.  

 

At 19:23 Command requested Dekalb county send Spencerville and Concord fire full response to the scene. They arrived with 2 tankers and 2 engines. 

 

At 19:30 Command requested Norfolk and Southern stop all main line train traffic through Grabill.  

 

At 19:31 Command Requested Huntertown fire ans EMS which sent an engine. 

 

At 19:45 crews requested town increase pressure on hydrants.

 

Around 20:45 crews lost water pressure due to draining both water towers in town. A County wide tanker task force response was requested bringing some 20 3000 gallon takers to the scene for a water shuttle. Tankers would fill from the public boat ramp in Leo -Cedarville Indiana at the Saint Joseph river and truck it the 4 miles to the scene.  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA-kEPLxgig 

 

At 20:15 Command requested Jackson Twp. Dekalb county for full response bringing 1 Engine tanker and 1 tanker to the scene. 

 

At. 23:40 Command requested the remainder of the county Southwest Fire District, Aboite Twp. Fire, Poe Fire, Monroeville Fire, Hoagland Fire to the scene for relief crews.

 

Fire units are still on scene as of now. More photos to follow. 

 

First pic is from my drive to scene. 




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-01-2015

Getting closer




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-01-2015

Looking down the aley behind the Hardware store towards the fire 1 Block to the south




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-01-2015

Looking south towards fire from main and state street.




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-01-2015

In front of Fire building the main old grain mill is on the left fully involved and mostly collapsed. a new addition completed in summer of 2014 is on the right which was filled floor to ceiling with stacks of OSB board. 




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-01-2015

Saint Joseph Twp. Quint 77 which is a new HME ladder truck and this is its first fire. 




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-01-2015

Last pic from now till i get home. At the height of the fire they had 3 ladder pipes flowing, 4 deck guns, and 10 hand lines flowing. 




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - hank - 04-01-2015

Good photos!

 

tHANKs




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - gmuhr - 04-02-2015

Nice work!




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - CCFR-45 - 04-02-2015

Nice shots. 

 

Thanks for sharing.




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-02-2015

Here are several pics used with permission from sandy shrock who took these photos as the first due fire apparatus arrived. 




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-02-2015

another




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-02-2015

first line goes into operation cooling down the exposure to the north which is the grabill vet office which burned down in 2005.  




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-02-2015

First line attempts to knock down bulk of fire from front of building




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-02-2015

Wider shot aerial also in operation




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-02-2015

First collapse occurred quickly as mutual aid departments arrive




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-02-2015

Ok now the pics from my camera.

 

New haven ladder 17 working the south end of fire buildiing




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-02-2015

Crew from Woodburn fire department working the blitz fire from the east side of the fire where the main line N&S tracks are




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-02-2015

an over all shot from main street showing how many streams in play 




100 year old Grainy massive fire Grabill Indiana - ACPD227 - 04-02-2015

And this many streams from the rr side.