3 Fire Departments Respond to Building Fire in Stearns County
MELROSE (WJON News) -- Fire crews responded to a fire in Stearns County.
The Sheriff's Office says they received a call at about noon Thursday for a building fire in Grove Township near Melrose.
Thirty-eight-year-old Jonathon Klaphake of Melrose said he could see smoke coming from a turkey barn and that there was a skid loader on fire inside the building.
No people or animals were in the building.
The Melrose Fire Department was assisted by the fire departments from Freeport and Sauk Centre.
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Klaphake says he had been spreading fresh bedding in the barn prior to the fire with the skid loader.
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