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Fire departments called out to barn fire north of Almena
By: Jim Bell 11/07/2009
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Firemen from the Almena and Turtle Lake fire departments were called out to a barn fire at the Tom and Lynn Feidt farm north of Almena Friday afternoon.
Tom Feidt said that he and other family members were finishing up a late lunch when they spotted smoke and then fire coming from the barn. "The roof caved 5 minutes later," Tom Feidt said. The fire was fanned by a strong wind from the southwest.

Feidt said the main barn was a total loss, and that a smaller farrowing barn was substantially damaged. Three silos next to the barn will also have to be torn down. The losses included 20 hogs and some chickens. According to Feidt, the loss will total somewhere $125,000-$150,000. Feidt said the loss of livestock could have been worse, but that a lot of the hogs were out of the barn when the fire broke out.

"We won't rebuild the main barn, but we hope to get the smaller barn back up before winter sets in."

Feidt said the cause of the fire was probably electrical. "We had a fencer hooked up from the barn, and that was the only thing running." Feidt said the fencer had been there for 30 years.

Firemen were at the scene until about 7:30 p.m. A backhoe was brought in to aid the firefighting effort.

Feidt has raised hogs on the farm for the past seven years. "I milked cows for 40 years before that," Feidt said.


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