No one was injured in a fire inside a former Battle Ground church that began around 2:30 a.m. Monday and involved projectile fire balls and hundreds of burning mannequins.
Clutter and intense heat forced exhausted firefighters to retreat and fight the fire solely from the old church’s exterior, officials said. Fire investigators declared the fire to be human-caused.
Mannequins and other clutter in and outside of the building at 24209 NE 92nd Ave. made it difficult to stretch hoses throughout the interior, Clark County Fire Chief John Nohr said.
The fire spread to a house next to the former church and to multiple sheds, all of which were part of the same property. Due to pressure from the heat, large fire balls vented from a 200-gallon propane tank under the church’s back porch and stairway for over an hour until the tank was empty, officials said.
The Clark County Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the fire along with the Clark County Sheriff’s deputies. A resident from a house across the street reported the fire and provided security footage of a vehicle pulling up and speeding away after a passenger appeared to throw flaming material.
No fire hydrants are in the area, so water was brought from over a mile away with water tenders.
A rehab unit, usually used during extreme weather or large events, was sent to help firefighters cool off. They will remain on scene throughout Monday. The fire came at the end of the Fourth of July, during which firefighters had a physically tiring shift, officials said.
Unincorporated Clark County was among the first Portland-area jurisdiction to ban the sale and use of fireworks over the holiday.
Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue, Clark County Fire District and the Vancouver Fire Department responded.
-- April Rubin; arubin@oregonian.com; @AprilMRubin
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