News: Abbotsford - Fire
Destroys Theater (Mar 2012)
Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail:
dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Kampmeyer, Apfelbeck
----Source: Thorp Courier (Thorp, Clark Co., WI) 3/07/2012
Fire Destroyed Abbotsford Theater (Colby Man Dead - 2012)
Authorities were on the scene on Monday, March 5, investigating the cause of an
Abbotsford fire that left a firefighter dead and destroyed a historic theater.
The fire in Abby Theatre, in the 200 block of North First Street, took hours on
Sunday, March 4, for the firefighters from the Abbotsford, Colby,
Owen-Withee-Curtiss and Dorchester fire departments to extinguish. Firefighters
responded at 12:16 p.m. and had put out most of the fire by 4:00 p.m. The
theater’s roof collapsed during initial fire suppression efforts, trapping three
firefighters inside.
Authorities say the firefighter who died battling a blaze at a historic
Wisconsin theater also was a Marathon County Sheriff’s Deputy. Deputy Sheriff
Jamison Kampmeyer and two other firefighters ere trapped inside Abby Theatre in
Abbotsford on Sunday.
Kampmeyer died inside. The other two firefighters were treated and released
after being hurt by falling bricks. Abbotsford Fire Chief Jody Apfelbeck says 50
firefighters were at the scene Sunday.
The Wisconsin Department of Criminal Investigation and the U.S. Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are investigating the cause of the fire.
Kampmeyer, 34, was a father of three young children and a Colby volunteer
firefighter who joined the sheriff’s department in 2004, where he was an
emergency medical technician on the sheriff’s SWAT team.
The other two trapped firefighters later were treated for their injuries and
released Sunday from Ministry Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield.
Two other firefighters hit by falling debris also were treated and released
Sunday.
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