Southern Door Fire Department responded to the county’s second reported chimney fire in as many days on Sunday afternoon. Just before 5 p.m., crews were dispatched to a home on Park Drive in the town of Nasewaupee where flames and smoke were seen coming out of the chimney. Within an hour, firefighters had the fire extinguished and the chimney cleaned out to hopefully prevent another blaze from occurring. Southern Door Fire Chief Randy Massart says one other challenge crews faced on Sunday aside from the fire itself was the cold weather, which featured wind-chills well below zero degrees.

Other than a little smoke in the home, there was no damage and no injuries to report. Massart encourages residents to do the little things to help prevent fires from occurring in their chimneys such as keeping them clean and not burn green wood. On Saturday fire departments in northern Door County responded to a chimney fire in the Town of Gibraltar that later spread to the home’s roofline.