Fatal House Fire - Town of Spring Brook

On Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 12:55pm the Dunn County 911 Center received calls of a house fire on CTH E (S) in Spring Brook Township.

Elk Mound Fire, Menomonie Fire & Rescue and the Dunn County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the scene. Numerus other fire and ambulance services were called to the scene including Mayo 1 and Lifelink 3 helicopters to treat and air lift patients from the scene who were in the house at the time of the fire.

There were six occupants of the house at the time the fire started. Five of the occupants of the house, one female adult and four children, are being treated at different hospitals for thermal injuries and lacerations. One adult male from the house was unable to make it out of the house and perished. Two other adult residence of the house were not home at the time that the fire started.

This fire remains under investigation by the State Fire Marshal, Dunn County Sheriff’s Office and the Dunn County Medical Examiner’s Office as crews are still on scene looking into the cause of this fatal fire.