It didnʼt take long for fire of an undetermined origin to destroy a motor home near the north edge of Superior. After smelling smoke, the driver made the decision to stop as the vehicle crested the hill north of the Superior Municipal Airport buildings. The Superior Volunteer Fire Department was called to control the fire shortly before 9 p.m. The fire had spread from the vehicle in the ditch but was kept from reaching adjoining fields.
As Superior fire trucks raced north on Idaho Street about 9 p.m. Saturday, there was no second guessing the page from the Nelson Dispatch Center which had called them out.
Dispatch had reported a motorhome was on fire near the Superior Airport.
The sky was a blaze with fire as the flashing hazard lights from vehicles stopped on the highway punctuated the night.
Arriving on the scene the fire fighters found a 1993 Ford truck chassis with a Fleetwood motor home body was fully ablaze.
The owner, a Superior resident, was returning to town when smoke was detected. The vehicle was soon fully engulfed in fire but the occupants were able to get out without injury.
Golfers at the nearby Superior Country Club who had participated in the Jake Kleen Memorial 4-Person Scramble, saw the flames and came to investigate.
The southbound vehicle was stopped near the crest of the hill north of the Matt and Teresa Sullivan home.
Members of the Superior Volunteer Fire Department were able to stop the fire from spreading into nearby fields but the motorhome and its contents were lost. Some roadside vegetation burned.
Scott Nondorf, chief of the Superior Volunteer Fire Department, reported the cause of the fire was unknown.
The motor home was owned by Chelsea Angel of Superior. There were two people in the vehicle when it caught fire.
The fire closed Highway 14, the only direct hardsurfaced road connecting Superior with communities to the north. A possible detour involved 15th Street and two county roads commonly called the Twin Barns and Golf Course roads.
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