Durant firefighters hosed down a shed fire early Tuesday morning on North 10th Avenue behind a doughnut shop.
Firefighters were dispatched at 12:13 and upon arrival, they observed a wooden fence and small shed on fire, according to a DFD report. They entered the yard and used bolt cutters to cut a lock off of the shed. They put out the fire and waited for the fire marshal to investigate.
Tenants told firefighters the fire was caused by arson and that they knew who started it, the report stated. One of the residents began arguing with an unknown person and police arrived on scene and were able to get them to “calm down,” according to the report.
The cause of the fire was under investigation at the time of the report.
Firefighters responded at 6:28 a.m. March 4 to a possible house collapse at 1003 E. Main St. during the storm. When they arrived, they discovered the house had not collapsed but the porch and gable had been torn away from the home. Firefighters inspected the house and determined it was structurally safe, according to the report.
Gasoline spilled from a fuel truck after an accident at approximately 8:30 p.m. March 3 on Highway 78 and Peanut Trail in Hendrix. Firefighters were stopped by the Kemp Fire Department and Bryan County EMS about a mile west of the accident. A man at the scene said he took the woman away from the site of the accident because of gasoline spilling from the truck. The driver told firefighters she was transporting 8,800 gallons of unleaded gasoline, according to the report.
Firefighters went to the crash scene where there was a fuel trailer on its side. They used a rubber plug to stop the leak and it was estimated that several hundred gallons of gasoline had spilled. About an hour later, representatives from McGraw Oil arrived and they determined that they were going to allow a Haz-Mat team to clean it up.