Fire torches Jalapeno’s Grill, two evacuated from building
About an hour after the blaze was reported, and a half hour after fire crews had been pouting through a hole they cut in the roof, a thick cloud of dark smoke completely envelops the Jalapeno’s Grill building along Hwy. 18 in Hot Springs on Monday morning, July 6. Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald-Star
Roughly two hours after the fire was reported, and crews had been battling it for roughly 90 minutes, the ladder truck continued to pour water into the roof, now through a large hole carved by the flames. Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald-Star
HOT SPRINGS — Former School Resource Officer Thomas McMillan could not have anticipated that his last day working for the Hot Springs Police Department, before moving to the Fall River County Sheriff’s Office, would include helping rescue two men from the burning Jalapeno’s Grill restaurant, which had not yet opened for the day. Several 911 callers in cars passing by on US Highway 18 initially rep…
