Overview
- Fire crews in Floyds Knobs responded to a garage blaze on Lee Drive around 10:15 p.m. Saturday that began spreading to the attached home and forced the family out.
- Roughly 40 firefighters kept the blaze from consuming the house after about two hours, using tanker shuttles because the rural road has no hydrants.
- A hybrid car in the garage needed continuous cooling with large volumes of water to keep its lithium-ion battery from re-igniting.
- One firefighter was treated for exhaustion and later released, and officials reported no civilian injuries.
- The Indiana Department of Homeland Security’s Fire Marshal is investigating the origin and cause, which remain unknown.