Firefighters from the Cloquet Area Fire District responded to two house fires Monday and found a frozen hydrant at each location.

That's a problem, said CAFD captain Chad Vermeersch.

"We had two frozen hydrants [Monday], one on each of the fires," Vermeersch said. "They hadn't been dug out and they were both frozen."

Vermeersch said the first call was a chimney fire on the 2000 block of Prospect Avenue in Cloquet. The fire extended into attic a little bit but the firefighters were able to knock it down pretty quickly, he said. They arrived on the scene at 10:26 a.m. and were out by 11:30 a....