Your Hometown Newspaper Since 1854

Published March 14, 2009, 12:00 AM

Trout Brook Road fire


Flames and smoke billow from a cabin at 977 Trout Brook Road Friday afternoon. Working to connect water hoses to fight the fire are, from left, Assistant Chief Jeff Dabruzzi, Tyrrell Gaffer, Miranda Kustrich and Capt. Shawn Pettee of the Hudson Fire Department. Photo by Randy Hanson

  • Flames and smoke billow from a cabin at 977 Trout Brook Road Friday afternoon. Working to connect water hoses to fight the fire are, from left, Assistant Chief Jeff Dabruzzi, Tyrrell Gaffer, Miranda Kustrich and Capt. Shawn Pettee of the Hudson Fire Department. Photo by Randy Hanson
  • A member of the St. Joseph Fire Department watches over a portable water tank set up on Trout Brook Road. The Lower St. Croix Valley and Roberts departments also assisted Hudson firefighters in responding to the 4 p.m. Friday cabin fire. Photo by Randy Hanson
  • Hudson firefighters Chris Matson, right, and Tyrrell Gaffer man a fire hose used to put out the blaze started by fireworks. Photo by Randy Hanson
  • Hudson firefighter John Wohlers is highlighted against the smoky background of the cabin fire.
  • The charred frame of the front of Nancy B. Miller’s cabin is exposed after the flames are knocked down. Assistant Fire Chief Jeff Dabruzzi and Capt. Shawn Pettee are in the foreground. Photo by Randy Hanson
  • The blaze gutted the 700-square-foot cabin, located on heavily wooded Department of Natural Resources property on the south bank of the Willow River. Photo by Randy Hanson