6000 Block of Barnard Mill Road Fire

Battalion Chief’s Office

Non-Emergency Phone: (815) 385-0075

Release Date: January 12, 2022

Battalion Chief Sears

On January 11, 2022, at approximately 9 pm, the McHenry Township Fire Protection
District responded to the 6000 block of Barnard Mill Road in Ringwood at C & S Farms
for a report of a fire in a barn.

A fire was visible from a large storage barn approximately 65’ x 150’ in size on arrival.
Crews began an aggressive attack on the fire and requested assistance from several
surrounding agencies using the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System (MABAS). There were no
fire hydrants, so water had to be brought in using water tenders. The fire was at an
operational dairy farm, so livestock had to be transported away from the scene using
transport trailers from other facilities during the incident.

Equipment from Richmond, Spring Grove, Wonder Lake, Fox Lake, Crystal Lake,
Wauconda, Woodstock, Fox River Grove, Hebron, Harvard, Marengo, Cary, Huntley,
Nunda, Lake Villa, Antioch, and Union along with Twin Lakes and Bloomfield, Wisconsin
responded to assist with the fire.