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Planes Destroyed by Monmouth Airport Fire

Tri States Public Radio | By Rich Egger
Published October 25, 2019 at 12:45 PM CDT
City of Monmouth

Ten aircraft were inside the Monmouth Municipal Airport hangar when a fire broke out early Friday.  The city reported eight of the planes were destroyed and the other two were damaged.

The fire department said no one was injured.

The cause of the fire is not known. The city said the Illinois State Fire Marshall is investigating.

Credit Courtesy the City of Monmouth

The fire department said it was called to the airport at 5:54 a.m. on a report of heavy smoke coming from the administrative office and hangar. Upon arrival, the department found the hangar fully engulfed in fire.

The department said it took three hours to contain the scene. Around ten other fire departments responded to a mutual aid call to help the Monmouth department.

The city’s website said its airport is the oldest continually operated airport in Illinois.

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Rich Egger
Rich is the News Director at Tri States Public Radio. Rich grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago but now calls Macomb home. Rich has a B.A in Communication Studies with an Emphasis on Radio, TV, and Film from Northern Illinois University. Rich came to love radio in high school where he developed his “news nerdiness” as he calls it. Rich’s high school had a radio station called WFVH, which he worked at for a couple years. In college, Rich worked at campus station WKDI for three years, spinning tunes and serving at various times as General Manager, Music Director and Operations Manager. Before being hired as Tri States Public Radio’s news director in 1998, Rich worked professionally in news at WRMN-AM/WJKL-FM in Elgin and WJBC-AM in Bloomington. In Rich’s leisure time he loves music, books, cross-country skiing, rooting for the Cubs and Blackhawks, and baking sugar frosted chocolate bombs. His future plans include “getting some tacos.” [Copyright 2025 Tri States Public Radio]
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