CARTHAGE â A blustery snowstorm Saturday complicated efforts to extinguish a burning trailer home.
As firefighters worked to put out the blaze, called in at about 3 p.m., police were inundated with cars sliding off roads, including some that crashed near the burning home.
One of the four residents of a trailer home on Route 3 in the town of Wilna was taken to Carthage Area Hospital for what appeared to be smoke inhalation, Carthage Fire Chief Brian Draper said.
It was shortly after 3 p.m. when the left side of the home caught fire. It was also the peak of low visibility across Jefferson County. Sweeping whiteouts caused an influx of cars off the road, an officerâs vehicle was struck, and crashes were increasingly being reported to emergency dispatchers.