Volunteer firefighters fought two structure fires earlier this week in the county.

The first was reported just after 4 p.m. May 10 in the 4500 block of State Road 46 East at Avionics Mounts Inc., an aircraft supply store.

Brown County (Nashville) Volunteer Fire Department Chief Nick Kelp said it was initially reported as a brush fire. A firefighter who lived nearby went to the address and then reported a structure was on fire as well.

Nashville Fire was assisted by Hamblen Township and Southern Brown volunteer fire departments.

The blaze ended up spreading across about 2 to 3 acres. The property owner had been burning trash and left the fire unintended, Kelp said.

When the fire went up a hill, it caught the roof of the building since it was close to the hillside, Kelp said.

Kelp said the fire was put out and the roof was damaged, but that with repairs, the company should be able to return to business.

The next day, just after 6 p.m. May 11, a fire was reported at a home in the 3900 block of Plum Creek Road.

Jackson Township Volunteer Fire Department Chief Glenn Elmore said the cause of the fire, which damaged an attached covered porch, was electrical. A fan was plugged into a power strip on the porch and the fan had caught fire.

“It wasn’t the wiring of the house itself, it was between the outlet, power strip and the fan. The fan looked like it was the culprit of the whole thing,” Elmore said.

He said the homeowner noticed the fire after it had burned through the porch floor and caught the crawlspace on fire.

“We had some flames in the floor and on the outer edge of the porch, but most of the fire was underneath the house. It made it difficult to reach,” he said.

“By extinguishing the outside, of course all of the water went under the house, which made it a mud pit. Our guys had to kind of crawl under there and put the fire out, which had insulation under the floor and fiberboard, which holds the insulation up, and was the main source of the fire.”

Firefighters from Jackson Township Fire and Nashville Fire were on scene for about two hours.

A man was living in the home with pets and they all made it out safely. Elmore said the man would still be able to live in his home and that there was only smoke damage in the home, with the majority of damage contained to the porch.

“We turned the power back on before we left, checked everything. Basically the porch area would be the only area that is unlivable at the time,” he said.

Firefighters had to pull 600 to 900 feet of fire hose line from Plum Creek Road down a long driveway to fight the fire.

Elmore and a deputy with the Brown County Sheriff’s Department were the first ones on scene. They used fire extinguishers to contain the fire outside.

“We slowed the fire growth down until they get the line stretched and we were able to apply water,” Elmore said.