The Southern Door Fire Department responded to the blaze at about 12:30 a.m. on County Highway J, where they found the camper fully engulfed. The department’s 14 firefighters helped extinguish the fire in about an hour with about 3,000 gallons of water. Southern Door Fire Chief Rich Olson said mutual aid was canceled once they knew they had enough resources, though the Brussels-Union-Gardner Fire Department did assist in setting up a fill site. While it likely did not impact the outcome for the camper, Olson expressed frustration with emergency calls not going through to the Door County Sheriff’s Department Dispatch Center via a Cellcom phone. He added he needed to try several things to contact firefighters and mutual aid.

Nobody was hurt in the fire, and because of the damage, the cause of the fire cannot be determined.