The first accident occurred just north of McDuffee Road on U.S. 33 when the driver of the red car failed to see the stopped mini-van who was waiting on a school bus.

One person was transported to the hospital complaining of pain.

While crews re-routed traffic and cleaned up the mess the fire department was then called to assist Arcola fire department at U.S. 33 & Johnson Road for yet another personal injury accident where one car caught fire.

First arriving units called for an area tanker response and upon further investigation many of the tankers were turned back.

Churubusco, Huntertown and Arcola units handled the exinguishment and the delapidated barn received moderate fire damage and heavy water damage.

The fire was brought under control in less than 20 minutes, no one was injured in the 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

First arriving Arcola units reported a fully engulfed barn with multiple exposures and immediately requested a northwest area tanker response.

Units that reported to the fire along with Churubusco were Arcola, Aboite Township, Washington Twp. (Allen Co.), Union Twp. (Whitley Co.), Huntertown and Northeast Fire (Allen Co.)

Many other departments from Allen County were then put into a standby mode in the event another major incident occurred in the northwest part of the county.

At time of press the fire was still undetermined.