Orange City, Iowa — The Orange City Fire Department got called out a couple of times this weekend. And if there were a lesson to be learned from both calls, it would probably be, “Be careful!”
Orange City Fire Chief Denny Vander Wel reports the first call was on Friday afternoon about ten minutes before two p.m. He says they were called to the report of a car fire at the Pizza Ranch in Orange City. He tells us as it turned out, there were people there who were trying to jumpstart a car and they had the jumper cables crossed with the red and black switched on one of the batteries. According to Vander Wel it caused some burnt wiring and burned one of the bumpers a little, but there was no real fire.
On Saturday, at about 11:30 p.m., they were called out again, this time for a dumpster fire behind Stegenga Hall on the northwest part of the Northwestern College campus. Vander Wel says someone apparently put something hot in the dumpster, and a little fire started. He tells us it melted some plastic in the dumpster but did not damage the dumpster’s plastic lids. According to Vander Wel they extinguished it with water and were on their way in probably less than half an hour.
