A garage in the 1100 block of Avenue E was completely destroyed when a couple welding tanks exploded Saturday night at about 8:30 p.m.
Photo courtesy of Brian Wright
A passerby snapped a photo of a firefighter working to extinguish a garage fire in the 1100 block of Avenue E Saturday night. An explosion rocked the neighborhood, but no one was injured in the incident
Photo courtesy of Kenny Martin
A view of the blaze from the Fort Madison hilltop.
Firefighters respond to garage fire near Hillside Inn Saturday night.
Posted
Chuck Vandenberg, Pen City Current Editor
FORT MADISON - Fort Madison firefighters worked for just over an hour putting out a garage fire Saturday night.
Reports started coming into LeeComm at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday of an explosion of some type in the 1100 block of Avenue E.
According to Fort Madison Fire Chief Joey Herren the fire started when a acetylene tank inside the garage blew up causing several other tanks to explode destroying the structure.
"We might have some video of this from a patrol car, maybe. But one of the officers said it blew the roof up off the garage."
Herren said the fire is under investigation and didn't know exactly what caused the tanks to explode. The garage was completely destroyed by the explosion and ensuing blaze.
No one was injured and firefighters cleared the scene right around 10 p.m.
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