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Beaver Creek house burned for training

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Lori Sorenson

An 80-year-old farmhouse burned to the ground in Beaver Creek Township Wednesday night as part of a joint training exercise among several local fire departments.
Burdette and Sharon Braun built a new house on their acreage last fall and offered the old one to firefighters for training.
“It went well,” Burdette said Thursday morning after smoking embers had been pushed into a hole where the old house once stood. “It’s down and most everyone’s happy.”
Several teams of firefighters from Beaver Creek, Hills, Luverne and Garretson trained on the burning house, which was set on fire around 5:30 p.m.
It was extinguished and re-ignited several times for training before it was finally allowed to burn out around sundown.
Firefighters took care to protect the nearby new house from the heat of the flames, keeping it sprayed with water while flames from the controlled burn leaped sky high.
“The weather last night was perfect,” Burdette said about gentle northwest breezes, which directed flames away from the new house.
Burdette said the old farmhouse had once belonged to his father, Albert Braun, who bought it in the 1950s from Oscar Aaker.

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