Lightning suspected cause of large barn fire
"I feel 99 percent sure it was [lightning]. It was in the middle of that terrible storm. I was home and someone said they heard it hit. The way it just took the whole barn at one time -- both sides," Burgess said in near disbelief as plumes of smoke still wafted up from the wreckage of his hay barn.
According to Burgess, whose farm sits off of
He said a neighbor called him and said his barn was on fire. When he stepped out of his back door he said that both of the 40-foot-long open-air shelters connected to each flank of the barn were fully involved in flame.
"It was game on," Burgess said.
The barn itself, an 80-by-100 foot structure, and the shelters housed about 6,000 square bales of hay and 500 round bales.
The only thing left standing Friday afternoon was one of the 40-foot open-air shelters. The barn and other shelter laid in a heap of twisted metal, surrounded by hills of charred, smoldering hay.
"They [firefighters] pretty much had to tear the metal off of the building so they could get to the hay to put it out," he said. "The round bales were in there stacked three high."
Burgess estimates about
When he went to bed around
Burgess had heard that at least 15 departments responded to the fire, and he was thankful to all of the departments and firefighters that helped fight the flames.
"They took a lot of time, effort and money to put out the fire," he said.
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