Fire put out quickly at airport hangar
Emergency responders with the Glacier Park International Airport fire rescue crew, assisted by all units of Columbia Falls and Evergreen fire rescue, responded to a report of smoke billowing from an airplane hangar at GPI Airport at 9 a.m. on Friday morning.
Emergency responders with the Glacier Park International Airport fire rescue crew, assisted by all units of Columbia Falls and Evergreen fire rescue, responded to a report of smoke billowing from an airplane hangar at GPI Airport at 9 a.m. on Friday morning.
According to airport director Robert Ratkowski, the exact cause of the fire was still unknown, although it may have originated in an aircraft parked in one of the hangar’s bays.
The GPIA fire rescue crew responded using their new aircraft fire fighting vehicles, the first time the vehicles have been used in the field since being obtained by the crew in December.
The fire was out and responders began leaving by 9:40 a.m. There were no injuries.