https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/24/camp-house-fire-911-calls-destructive-origins
The friend who was with Wilson started moving downed trees out of the way while Wilson called 911. At 1:13 p.m., Wilson told the dispatcher the fire was about “50 by 50” feet across. “I mulched this area so it’s going pretty good,” he said. He estimated it was about 15 feet away from the edge of the woods. “If it gets to the tree line, it’ll be really bad,” he said. Seven minutes later Wilson called 911 again. “It’s going to burn the whole (expletive) woods down if we don’t get somebody here right now,” he said. “Oh (expletive). The tree line’s going, we need … holy (expletive), we need somebody.” “Oh my god, oh my god, this is really bad, this is really, really bad,” he continued. When the dispatcher asked how big the fire was, he answered, “Ginormous. Eighty feet tall right now, through the (expletive) woods. It’s — oh my god, it’s taking off, we need people here right now.” But by the time firefighters arrived, it was too late. On an unseasonably hot, dry and windy day, the blaze erupted and took off, burning through a parched forest choked with dead evergreen trees. ============================== apparently the FD response time was greater than 7 minutes - might have been greater than 20 minutes considering how rural some parts of MN are note - article does not say what the FD response time was -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKZ_Q0EiG%3De7Cx2aM%2BGEaT3d4y3Su1NO81fD0qctOjdCSA%40mail.gmail.com.
