Two-story house fire with ammunition detonation in Murphysboro, Murphysboro IL

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/18/2025 05:51 AM

Murphysboro, IL 62966

Fire crews responded to a two-story house fire in Murphysboro with heavy flames at the back. Ammunition inside the house was detonating during the fire response.

Audio|Source: Murphysboro Police Fire and Emergency Management

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Transcript:

00:00

All units respond to the structure for all units.

00:04

Best directions will be enter INF,

00:07

run east on 3rd Street.

00:09

When you get to the gravel pit, stay to the left, follow curves around.

00:15

You're not going to miss it.

00:16

Third Street, east out of INF,

00:19

the gravel rough hull, stay to the left.

00:21

You'll be going north around some curves.

00:24

You'll curve back east and you should rent into it.

00:33

55228 on the scene of 7.502.

00:41

All units hold the traffic, all units hold the traffic.

00:45

5100, got a size up.

00:46

5100, go ahead.

00:53

Copy, 50100 is on scene, two-story residential,

00:58

heavy fire outside the back third of the house.

01:01

Several vanness vehicles in the yard at 753.

01:10

24T, one around here at the fire station 1, 751.

01:27

Right. It's on the county-divize neighbor's confirm that is abandoned wooded up property.

01:33

When you wooded up.

01:34

Okay. Bye.

01:36

Okay,

01:45

I'm going.

01:48

Let's go ahead.

01:51

Fire taking the path to check the quarters.

01:59

Get in from the ground of virus.

02:01

The ammunition inside the residence going off currently.

02:03

Amination inside the residence going off currently.

02:12

Mervisville 327 is 10.42.

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327, 10.4.

02:25

I got the Vittal-800 on 7-58.

02:34

The Duc2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-8.

02:36

Yeah, 7-502-1-3-3-7-58.

02:51

...on-client command there for getting.

02:58

You're several minutes in direction.

03:07

51, go ahead.

03:08

52-51, go ahead.

03:20

Copy 52 51 561 on screen heavy 12 fire that's got it on by the camera

03:28

2100 is going to remain in command all fire down operations join the red fire down operation

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