A fire on Sandhill Road on Tuesday night destroyed a storage building in the town of Union.  Brussels-Union-Gardner (BUG) Fire Chief Curt Vandertie says his department was dispatched to a fully engulfed barn on 778 Sandhill Road around 7:15 p.m.  The blaze was several hundred feet behind a house well off the roadway with a 30-foot-by 40-foot building in flames.  Vandertie says 21 members of the BUG Fire Department with assistance from Southern Door and Sturgeon Bay crews were on the scene and able to prevent the fire from getting to the house.  They also quickly contained the fire that spread into the nearby woods.

Some equipment and personal items in the old storage barn were lost, including a riding lawn mower used earlier in the day.   The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but the origin of the blaze was on the north side of the building where the mower was parked.  The BUG Fire Department used 11,000 gallons of water to extinguish the fire.  The scene was cleared at about 9:45 Tuesday night.