Sheldon, Iowa — The Sheldon Fire Company responded to the call of a garage on fire about 5:40 Wednesday evening.
The scene of the blaze was a garage at 814 – 7th Avenue in Sheldon. Assistant Fire Chief Randy Harms tells KIWA the blaze was extinguished with water and foam. He says siding was damaged on a nearby house, and a fiber optic cable, belonging to HTC Communications, was damaged.
Sources say the damage to the fiber optic cable left residents within a few blocks of the fire scene without cable TV, or internet services for a time. Service was restored within a couple of hours.
KIWA has learned that someone was working on a car inside that garage, when it caught fire.
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Original story posted 7:50 pm, 10-4-2017
Sheldon, Iowa — Sheldon firefighters were called to the scene of a garage fire on Wednesday evening.
The page went out about 5:40 p.m. to the call of a car on fire inside a garage in the 800 block of Seventh Avenue in Sheldon.
We’ll have further details as they become available.
