The scene in front of Lawrence County Memorial Hospital at about 11:45 a.m.
LAWRENCEVILLE—A call for fire department response to Lawrence County Memorial Hospital this morning was apparently just a precaution.
Smoke was reported seen rising from above the hospital at about 11:30 a.m. However, there were no reports of flames, and the smoke dissipated quickly. It has not been ascertained as to what area of the hospital was affected.
This comes on the heels of a fire reported in an uninhabited trailer very early this morning (12:35 a.m., Saturday, August 31, 2013) north of the new tavern in Russellville, on the eastern side of the county near the Wabash River.
We’ve not learned who owned the trailer, but there was a sizable response to it, and Norris Electric had to be called because transformers were popping nearby, so the nature of the fire might have been electric, as the trailer was only uninhabited and not abandoned, so the electricity might still have been on. We’re looking into that aspect of it.
The tavern mentioned is apparently the one owned by soon-to-be-federally-sentenced ex-mayor of Bridgeport, Max Schauf.
Whether there’s any correlation between the trailer and the tavern is unknown…but everybody in the area knows Max. ‘Nuff said.