Medical Runs, Fatal Car Accident & House Fire

The fire department stayed quite busy Tuesday afternoon and evening by starting the day with a “typical” medical run and later in the afternoon a fatal car wreck on S.R. 205.

Fatal Accident

At approximately 2:00 p.m. a vehicle traveling northbound on S.R. 205 lost control of their vehicle and over corrected causing them to roll the vehicle several times ejecting one female passenger.

Police and medic units arrived on the scene and found the woman was deceased, while the driver was complaining of some minor aches and pains.

Fully Engulfed House Fire

Churubusco, Arcola and Washington Twp. fire units were called to the 8500 block of Butt Rd. in Allen County at approximately 20:30.

Arcola command were the first to arrive on the scene advsing they had a small house fully engulfed and have all units continue. Churubusco responded half of their fleet only to return one of them fairly early into the incident because of a smoke alarm sounding in town.

A small crew still left at the station from the house fire responded to the smoke alarm and found nothing to indicate an actual fire and it’s believed the alarms were sounding because of burnt food on the stove earlier in the evening