ARCADIA, Wis. — Two off-duty first responders helped a man and a dog escape a house fire on Pansy Pass in the Glencoe area. The two rescuers were driving by and saw flames and rushed to help. They banged on the door. No one answered, but they could see lights inside and ominous smoke. They broke in, found a sleeping man, and pulled him out and also a dog. When fire crews arrived, some from Arcadia, seven miles away, they extinguished the fire after containing it to one corner of the house. The man, age 50, was all right. No injuries were reported. This was about 9:50 p.m. Tentatively the fire was traced to a chimney.
Post-fire ruins. Not much left of this side of rural Pansy Pass house. Image: Buffalo County sheriff