Blaze in Dayton Draws at Least 12 Fire Departments

At least 12 fire departments responded to a fire in rural Dayton Thursday afternoon.

The fire started at about 3 p.m. near the corner of North Diamond Lake Road and Zanibar Lane in Dayton. Neighbor Terry Bodell said he saw the fire when he came home at about 3 p.m. and thought that it been going for a little while.

Property owner Adrian Dahlheimer told Patch the fire seemed to have started near some hay and a feed barn. There are no injuries, and the sheep on premise got out safely.

As of 5 p.m. Thursday, the fire had destroyed a trailer home and a shed, and firefighters were battling multiple fires on the property.

(The location of the fire as reported online at the Police Clips Facebook page and the Twin Cities Incident Page (TCIP) is 16200 block of N. Diamond Lake Road. TCIP described the incident as "multiple sheds on fire.")

The blaze is sending up a plume of smoke visible from some distance—I-94 and Bass Lake Road in Maple Grove, for instance.

Stacy Long, who lives nearby, told Patch the site of the fire had no water access and that tanker trucks were bringing water to the scene.

A Three Rivers Park community service officer said high winds were helping to spread the fire, and that the area that is burning has a quantity of scrap wood as well as brush.

Responding fire departments included St. Michael, Maple Grove, Albertville, Andover, St. Louis Park, Loretto, Hanover, Osseo, Hamel, Anoka-Champlain, Rogers, Ramsey, Brooklyn Park and Dayton.

The Minnesota State Patrol, Dayton police and Three Rivers Park District community service officers are monitoring traffic.

Dahlheimer told Patch he had lived on the property since 1938. He has lived in a trailer home there since another fire, in 2002, destroyed an 1851 house.

Additional details will be provided if they should become available.