{"id":5772,"date":"2012-10-29T07:42:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T12:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2012-10-29T07:46:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T12:46:47","slug":"fire-wipes-out-much-of-bucyrus-n-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5772","title":{"rendered":"Bucyrus, N.D. Fire Cause Officially Unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BUCYRUS, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The state fire marshal has concluded that the cause of a fire that devastated the small southwestern North Dakota town of Bucyrus can\u2019t be determined.<\/p>\n

The Dickinson Press reported that the state fire marshal\u2019s office issued its findings on Friday.<\/p>\n

Deputy Fire Marshall Don Temple stated in the report that the fire started Oct. 17 on farmland in western Adams County. The fire burned nearly 6,000 acres, destroyed four homes and several of other structures in the community.<\/p>\n

No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

The report said the fire started on land owned by Mike Mellmer of Reeder and originated about 40 feet from a site where he burned and buried an outbuilding in March.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to know how it started,\u201d Hettinger Fire Chief Mark Faller said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t there when it ignited and, as far as I know, nobody knows how that fire started.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seven homes and the town\u2019s Lutheran church were spared from the blaze that was pushed by winds of nearly 70 mph.<\/p>\n

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BUCYRUS, N.D. (AP) – The wildfire that devastated the small southwestern North Dakota town of Bucyrus (byoo-CY’-ruhs) has been ruled accidental, but the cause likely will never be known.<\/p>\n

Adams County State’s Attorney Aaron Roseland says<\/p>\n

there is not enough evidence for investigators to determine the<\/p>\n

cause of the fire Oct. 17 and 18 that swept through the town,<\/p>\n

forcing the evacuation of its 27 residents and burning four homes<\/p>\n

to the ground.<\/p>\n

Deputy State Fire Marshal Don Temple tells The Bismarck Tribune<\/p>\n

that the blaze started in a stubble field about 40 feet from where an abandoned farmstead building had been burned and buried last March. He says there is no reason to think there is any connection.<\/p>\n

Roseland says there is nothing to indicate the wildfire was<\/p>\n

deliberately set.<\/p>\n

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BUCYRUS, N.D. (AP) – A relief fund has been set up for residents of Bucyrus (byoo-SY’-ruhs) after a wildfire swept through the small southwestern North Dakota community.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dakota Plains Federal Credit Union in Hettinger has set up a fund, and also has established a $50,000 pool from which to make low-interest loans to fire victims.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Authorities say the Wednesday fire destroyed four homes, two
\nvacant farms and a picture-framing business.<\/p>\n

The cause of the fire that was fanned by strong winds was not immediately determined.
\nNone of the two dozen residents of the town was hurt.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mike and Evelyn Krug are among those who lost their home. Evelyn
\nKrug\u00a0says \u00a0she doesn’t know how the community will move on.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0BUCYRUS, N.D. (AP) – The chairman of the Adams County Commission says the destruction of one of the county’s communities by a wildfire is devastating.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Chuck Christman (KRIHST’-muhn) says four of the seven or eight homes in Bucyrus (byoo-SY’-rus) were destroyed in the Wednesday fire,\u00a0displacing all 27 residents.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The blaze scorched an area six miles long and half a mile wide.<\/p>\n

All Bucyrus\u2019 residents have been evacuated and a shelter has been established in the nearby town of Hettinger, about 60 miles south of Dickinson.<\/p>\n

He says that’s a lifetime of memories for at least four families.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Christman says firefighters were able to save a church in the
\ntown, and a privately owned elevator on the outskirts wasn’t
\ndamaged in the town of about 30 residents.<\/p>\n

The town’s only business, a picture-framing shop, was destroyed.<\/p>\n

Scranton fire chief Ryan Schumacher says firefighters had the blaze under control late Wednesday despite winds gusting more than 60 mph.<\/p>\n

Schumacher says \u201cthe town is basically gone.\u201d
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Christman says the state fire marshal will be investigating the
\ncause of the fire that also destroyed an abandoned farmstead and
\nabout 70 electrical power poles and forced the temporary shutdown
\nof U.S. Highway 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 BUCYRUS, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The state fire marshal has concluded that the cause of a fire that devastated the small southwestern North Dakota town of Bucyrus can\u2019t be determined. The Dickinson Press reported that the state fire marshal\u2019s office issued its findings on Friday. Deputy Fire Marshall Don Temple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6363,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions\/6363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}