Rural MO FFs Brave Temps to Handle Rash of Fires

Rural firefighters in St. Charles County responded to three structure fires within a 12-hour period earlier this week.

“Typically, we have four or five structures in a year. So to have that in a 12-hour period is significant,” Orchard Farm Fire Protection District Fire Chief Jeremey Hollrah told KMOV.

Firefighters from Orchard Farm and Rivers Pointe were on the scene of a vacant house fire when they spotted another structure on fire down the road. 

A man living in the building died. 

Later the same day, crews responded to a fully involved truck fire. 

The responses during the extreme weather left two firefighters injured after slipping on ice. One suffered a back injury and remained hospitalized while the other was released after treatment. 

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