Wash Day temporarily closed after fire

Wash Day Laundry suffered a small yet significantly damaging fire Monday morning.

The first report of the fire was at 5 a.m. on June 29. A dryer caught on fire.

“They were drying some clean up towels from a restaurant,” Wimberley Fire Chief Carroll Czichos said. “They dried them through part of the night. They stopped it and opened the door and thinking they had aired out… there was still enough oil in them or they weren’t dried all the way and spontaneous combustion started that up. It was mainly contained to the dryer but smoke went through damaging the whole building.”

The laundromat is owned by Jamie Bishop and Tom Vuomo.

“Unfortunately, we had a significant fire overnight and suffered extensive smoke damage,’ Bishop posted on Facebook. “Please keep us in your thoughts as we are working hard to reopen ASAP.”

About five hours later, Wimberley Fire Department was essentially back on the scene. A truck caught fire behind King Feed, which is located across the parking lot from Wash Day.

“They had a leak in the fuel line,” Czichos said. “They had been smelling it. Finally, the engine got hot enough, and it hit the right spot and caught on fire.”

Nobody was reported as injured in either fire.

This was all part of a busy weekend for the Wimberley Fire Department, which started out with a structure fire on June 26 in Rolling Oaks. A trailer burned completely.

“The person who was staying there had gone to the hospital earlier that evening,” Czichos said. “We aren’t sure what stared the fire exactly at this point, but it was accidental.”

Czichos said that nobody was injured in the fire, but that the trailer had almost completely burned before anyone saw it and notified authorities.

In addition the three fires, the Wimberley Fire Department responded to five vehicle accidents over the weekend. No serious injuries were reported.