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Helmo and Upper Linda Baumiester/Review
A home in Oakdale along pper 20th sustained major fire damage on Tuesady,April 22.The fire
is believed to have started in the backyard where it breached into the home and quickly spread up the back-
side of the home and into the attic.
Fire ruins Oakdale h
Boy and dog escape "I'd say it's a loss," Wold said. "There are some
salvageable valuables and personal belongings,
burning structure but my guess is the structure will have to be
rebuilt."
The Oakdale Fire Department responded to a While the exact cause of the fire is still
report of flames along the outside of a house at unknown and under investigation, Wold said it
the corner of Upper 20th Street North and Helmo appears to have been an accidental fire, and no
Avenue North at 7:49 p.m. Tuesday, April 22. "malicious activity is suspected." He believes the
fire
Deputy fire chief Kevin Wold said a passerby started in the backyard near a sunroom and
noticed the blaze and immediately called 9-1-1 then breached its way inside through basement
after checking to see if anyone was home and in windows, where it quickly spread up the backside
need of help. of the home and into the attic before firefighters
Inside the house was the family's son, who was extinguished it.
unaware of the flames engulfing the back of his Firefighters from the Lake Elmo and M able
parents' home. He and the family dog made it out w departments were soon at the scene to
unharmed, Wold said. No one else was home at assist, as well as emergency medical services staff
from Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater and Regions
the time and no injuries were reported.
Wold said Oakdale firefighters were at the Hospital in St. Paul. Additionally, North St. Paul
scene within a few minutes. firefighters covered the Oakdale fire station while
"We had just cleared a grease fire from an the other departments fought the blaze.
apartment on the north end of town and had Wold said the family is staying with relatives,
trucks on the road," Wold said. The deputy chief while they work with their insurance company to
said the apartment fire was minor and did not find temporary housing.
cause any major damage and there were no inju "They're OK physically, but naturally pretty
ries. devastated, like most people who go through such
The single-family home on Helmo, however, a life changing event."
was mostly destroyed. APR 1 0 2014
—Joshua Nielsen