(Creston, Iowa)  – Officials with the Creston Fire Department report firefighters were dispatched at around 3:48-a.m. Friday (today) to a structure fire at The barndominium and greenhouse, in rural Union County. When crews arrived at the scene off 240th Street, the structures were engulfed in flames. Occupants of the residence were able to safely evacuate prior to firefighters’ arrival. (Photos by Chuck Spindler, Creston Fire Dept. – from Facebook)

Creston Fire received mutual aid from the Afton Volunteer Fire Department, Lenox Fire Department, Prescott Fire & Rescue, and Corning Fire Departments.

Additionally, all five fire departments made multiple shuttles with their tanker trucks to provide water to two portable dump tanks and a pumper, keeping firefighters supplied with a constant source of water to fight the fire. Officials say Creston and other departments conducted a rural fire fighting, live burn exercise last December in which they trained for the type of water shuttling operation put into use Friday morning.