Teton County emergency crews respond to fire in weather that posed ‘many challenges’
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The following is a news release from Teton County Fire and Rescue on Thursday. A GoFundMe for the family that lost the shop can be found here.
At approximately 5:15 this evening, TCFR was dispatched to a report of an outbuilding that was on fire north of Driggs and East of Tetonia off 10000 North. When crews arrived, the 20×30 building was engulfed in flames.
This fire occurred during a winter storm warning. These conditions posed many challenges to firefighters.
We were to able extinguish the fire within 20 minutes; however, salvage, overall and cleanup will take several hours.
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