Fire Department Douses Out Of Control Fire in Oak Creek

OAK CREEK, WI — The Oak Creek fire department responded to a property on the 2400 block of W. Drexel Ave. on a report of an out-of-control fire just after 9 p.m.

According to police reports, a large amount of black smoke was coming from the property, and police located a fire at the south end of the property about 700 feet from the roadway.

When they talked with the property owner on-scene, he told officers that he was going to burn some pallets and an old shed in a burn pile.

He told police that when he started the fire, he noticed there were some construction materials like plastic and aerosol cans that caused the fire to quickly spread out of control.

Officers observed the fire to be about 10-feet wide by 15-feet in length with flames that were about 20-feet high.

No water source was nearby to put the fire out.

The Oak Creek fire department was called out to extinguish the fire.

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