Hinton House Fire

(Hinton) — Both the Hinton and the Merrill Fire Departments responded to a house fire Saturday morning.  That fire, located at 32278 Indigo Road is believed to have started from a wood burning stove.  Fire crews arrived at the scene at about 6:45 a.m. and were on the scene of that house fire for nearly six hours. Hinton Fire Chief Chad Beck describes the scene upon arrival.
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Beck says the house was totally destroyed.  There were no injuries as a result of that fire.  Later in the day, the Hinton Fire Department had to return to the same address as embers had rekindled.  Officials were on the scene a second time for about an hour.