This Day In History – October 16, 2016

This Day In History – October 16, 2016:    Medina-(CSi)  emergency response teams were called out around 7:30 Sunday night, Oct 16, 2016  to a large  blaze at Diamond W Feeds facility at 102 N.P. Street Northwest, in Medina. More photos at Facebook.com/TheReplayChannel – Like Us & Share!

Medina Fire Department was assisted on the scene by  fire departments  from Streeter, Cleveland, Woodworth,  and Jamestown Rural,  along with Medina Ambulance, the Stutsman County Sheriff’s Department, and North Dakota Highway Patrol.

Photos by T.Ravely/CSi

Information below from 2016:

MEDINA, N.D. (AP) – Officials at a livestock feed business destroyed in a grain elevator fire in Medina on Sunday night, say work will continue as normal out of another location until the company can rebuild.

Diamond W Feeds General Manager Kenny Hoffer says its building, as much as 60,000 bushels of corn and some feed products were destroyed in the Sunday night blaze.

Hoffer says the building’s up-to-date heat detection system went off around 7 p.m. Sunday.

Medina Fire Chief Brian Rau says firefighters believe the blaze started in the building’s basement or first floor. It had been compromised by the time firefighters entered, so they concentrated on protecting nearby homes and structures.

As the rubble continues to smolder from Sunday evening’s fire at Diamond W Feed, in Medina, plans are underway to re-establish the business.

Corporate member of the family business  Terry Wanzek says the blaze destroyed the elevator, and grain, amounting to over $1 million in damage.

Wanzek says the building is  insured, however the employees and Medina community are supporting re-building the business, a regional bulk livestock feed supplier.

The Medina Fire District continued  to keep an eye on the smoldering   debris on Monday.

 

The elevator smoldered for several hours before the fire broke through and burned the structure to the ground.

Reports indicate that the structure was evacuated before any injuries occurred.

One fire fighter suffered from over heating and facial burns.

The mostly wooden main elevator collapsed about midnight.

According to owner Terry Wanzek, approximately 40,000 bushels of grain was lost.

CSi reporter Thomas Ravely reported firefighters hosed down a  house on the north side to keep the blaze from spreading. Grass fires were reported in the area, and  embers flew a half mile from the fire scene.   The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office says the grain elevator is expected to be a total loss.

Authorities were working traffic control, Sunday night as the fire drew several on lookers.

Natural gas was shut off at the scene.   The official cause is under investigation.

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Diamond W Feeds has been in business since 2003, at which time we acquired the Medina Elevator located next to the Northern Pacific Railroad, at Medina.

More information as it becomes available.

Posted Sunday Oct 16, 2016 evening…

Medina, ND (CSi) – It has been reported that the Diamond W Feeds facility on NP Street in Medina, ND is on fire Sunday evening, October 16.   Medina is located 30 miles west of Jamestown, ND.

From Diamond W Feeds website:  “Diamond W Feeds has been in business since 2003, at which time we acquired the Medina Elevator located next to the Northern Pacific Railroad, at Medina, ND. . . “