PHOTOS: After nearly 11 hours, firefighters brought a blaze that consumed Vans Trading Co. in Tuba City, Arizona, under control Sept. 1.
“We didn’t clear (the scene) until six in the morning,” said Lieutenant Gilbert Edgewater, with Station 40 of the Navajo Nation Department of Fire & Rescue in Tuba City.
Edgwater said the department was dispatched around 7 p.m. Aug. 31 to Van's Trading Co., located on Highway 160 just west of Tuba City.
Station 40 was one of four engines dispatched to the scene. Additional resources included two engines from Tuba City, one engine from Station 81 in Twin Arrows and one engine from Shonto Fire Department. Tuba City emergency medical services and the Navajo Nation Police Department also assisted.