“The Knauf fire was, to my knowledge, one of the biggest fires ever in our city,” recalled Shelbyville Fire Chief Tony Logan as part of the Strand Theatre’s Community Treasure Series.
Revamped for 2019, The Community Treasure Series will feature 10 public events designed to spur conversation about unique, interesting and well-known events and people in Shelbyville history.
On Wednesday night at the Strand Theatre in downtown Shelbyville, Logan talked about major fires in Shelbyville over the last two centuries and his own experiences battling the ones that have occurred during his 34-plus-year career as a firefighter.
It was the most recent massive fire, one that made national news, that Logan shared the most details about. On Feb. 16, 2007, a portion of Knauf Insulation, one of Shelbyville’s largest employers, caught fire on a night when temperatures were sub-zero.