Sheldon, Iowa — An SUV was destroyed in a morning fire in Sheldon on Wednesday, December 28, 2022.
According to Sheldon Fire Chief Brad Hindt, the Sheldon Fire Company was paged to 411 Park Street (Highway 18) at about 8:30 a.m. for the report of a vehicle fire.
He says when firefighters arrived, they found the SUV’s passenger compartment totally engulfed by fire. Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire.
Hindt says the owner told him that he had parked the vehicle in the parking lot and had gone to work. The owner said he returned about an hour later to find the windows were discolored. He opened the driver’s door, found a small fire on the passenger side floor, put the Jeep in neutral, rolled it out to the middle of the parking lot, and tried to extinguish the fire, but it grew quickly.
Hindt says the cause of the fire is undetermined.
He says the Sheldon Police Department assisted with the response to the fire. Firefighters were at the scene for about an hour and 15 minutes.
