Saturday March, 27 2021 @ 15:08

Nature: Outside Fire

Location: 32443 Back Nine Way, Baywoods, Millsboro, DE 19966

On Saturday afternoon, March 27^th, the Indian River Volunteer Fire Company was alerted for an outside fire in the 32000 block of Back Nine Way in the Baywoods development off John J. Williams Highway.

Emergency response units from Indian River included Tanker 80 from the Oak Orchard area and Incident Command 80 from the Long Neck area.

Emergency response crews evaluated the incident, checked for exposures, and saturated the area.

Tanker 80 was returning from a pre-arranged standby at Millsboro (83) Fire Company when the Sussex County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) dispatched the incident.  It appears that the freshly installed mulch briefly caught fire and somewhat extended into the residential siding before being detected and extinguished via the residential occupants.