A house fire in Nokomis has firefighters urging families to check for smoke detectors. In the early hours of Friday morning, Nokomis Area Fire Protection District was alerted by Montgomery County 9-1-1 of a structure fire in the 100 block of North Oak Street in Nokomis. The call came in around 2:48 AM and when NAFPD arrived on the scene, heavy fire was showing from the rear 2nd-floor window of a 2-story single-family home.
Due to low manpower, Raymond-Harvel Fire, Pana Fire, Nokomis-Witt Area Ambulance Service, and Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency all helped the family get set up with the Red Cross. Fire and Rescue say that the second floor suffered major fire and smoke damage and a large portion of the floor suffered water damage. The house is structurally sound and should be able to be remodeled.
Nokomis Fire said that there were no smoke detectors in the house. The fire started in an occupied bedroom, and had there not been a resident awake at the time, this could have been a multi-fatality fire. Nokomis Fire urges residents to have working smoke detectors in each bedroom and common living areas and check them often.
