(La Porte County, IN) - A box truck containing bouncy houses was destroyed by fire.

At about 6:00 Wednesday evening, first responders were called to a home north of Wanatah in Clinton Township. A box truck had caught fire in the engine compartment.

Reports indicate the truck contained several bouncy houses for party rentals and related equipment. Operators of the truck told police they had arrived at the residence to pick up a rented bouncy house when the truck's engine started smoking. Despite efforts to extinguish it with a fire extinguisher and a garden hose, the fire spread quickly through the rest of the vehicle.

Heat from the blaze reportedly melted some sections of the customer's house about twenty feet away.

Firefighters from Cass-Clinton and Hanna Volunteer Fire Departments brought the fire under control. No one was injured in the mishap.