Fire destroys an apartment at Big Powderhorn Mountain

IRONWOOD – A Fire in the Big Powderhorn Village damages an apartment building yesterday.  At approx. 4 pm yesterday afternoon the Ironwood Township Fire Department responded to a 911 call of an apartment building fire on Snow Drift Street. Firefighters arrived on scene to find one of the apartments within the six-apartment building fully engulfed with fire showing out one window. Bessemer Township Fire Department was paged for mutual aid tanker support. The fire was quickly knocked down, extinguished, and confined to the one unit. There was Water damage to two units and smoke damage to a 3^rd in the building.