Hamburg dairy suffers a fire last week

The Hamburg Fire Department responded shortly after 9 a.m. last Wednesday to Double P Dairy, located at 134027 CTY A in the town of Hamburg, to extinguish a fire that destroyed a shop, office and milking parlor.

Ryan DeBroux, Hamburg Fire Chief, said the fire started in the shop, which is attached to an office and the milking parlor. He said a farm employee discovered the fire when he opened the door to the shop. The farm employee immediately called 911 and the Hamburg Fire Department received the fire call at 9:09 a.m.

DeBroux said 53 firefighters from nine fire departments, including Hamburg, used 66,000 gallons of water to extinguish the fire in the attached shop, office and milking parlor which are a total loss. No people or cattle were injured in the blaze. The Hamburg Fire Department was on scene of the fire for 6-1/2 hours.

He said Double P Dairy has 2,100 cows and local cattle haulers, milk truck drivers and dairy farms did everything they could to make sure the cattle were safe. He said milk truck drivers hauled water to Double P Dairy for the cows. the animals otherwise couldn’t drink water because the fire caused the electrical power to shut off on the farm. DeBroux said cows from Double P Dairy were hauled to Miltrim Farms in Athens, Van Der Geest Dairy in Merrill and to a dairy farm cooperative in eastern Wisconsin.

Hamburg Fire Department received mutual aid from the Athens, Edgar, Marathon, Maine, Mosinee, Texas, Corning and Merrill fire departments.