Fire & Rescue

La Crosse Fire Department battles blaze on Rose Steet

Published

3 years ago

December 3, 2020

The La Crosse Fire Department was on the scene in just over three minutes after receiving the call of a garage fire at 309 Rose St. around 3:11 p.m. Wednesday.

Crews saw heavy smoke and fire coming from inside the garage and extinguished the fire in about an hour and a half.

The garage had significant fire and heavy smoke damage, according to the La Crosse Fire Department. Investigators determined the fire was an accident caused by a spark.

The fire department had 22 personnel and eight apparatus respond, and the La Crosse Police Department assisted at the scene.

Kaitlyn Riley

Kaitlyn Riley’s passion for communications started on her family’s dairy farm in Gays Mills, Wis. Wanting to share agriculture’s story, she studied strategic communications and broadcast journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In college, she held officer positions with the Association of Women in Agriculture and Badger Dairy Club while volunteering as a news reporter for the college radio station. She also founded the university’s first agricultural radio talk show, AgChat. In her professional career, Kaitlyn has worked in radio, print and television news doing everything from covering local events to interviewing presidential candidates, and putting back on her barn boots to chat with farmers in the field. Today, Kaitlyn can be seen covering local stories that matter to you in the La Crosse area.