Welding sparks and wind gusts worked in unison to ignite nearby hay and start a fire that destroyed a barn in Forest Hill on Wednesday morning.
Just before noon on Wednesday, emergency personnel were dispatched to the 100 block of Chestnut Hill Road in Forest Hill, Harford County where a one-story agricultural barn was fully engulfed in flames.
Workers were installing a new I-beam inside barn for support when sparks ignited nearby hay. The workers attempted to extinguish the fire with fire extinguishers, but were unsuccessful in containing the fire. Wind gusts were a factor in the fire spreading rapidly throughout the structure.
Thirty firefighters from the Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company responded to the single-alarm blaze and had it under control within a hour.
No injuries were reported, but the Office of the State Fire Marshal estimated $75,000 in damage to the structure and another $25,000 in damage to its contents.
Photo Courtesy, Bob Kral, BAVFC
Somebody’s gonna get fired.
Reminds me of the fire at Anderson’s hardware. I saw the flames from Aberdeen drives South on Rt40. Oh how I prayed it was the new pig station going up in flames. How very dis I was….lol. The police in edgewood are like little children with too much candy. We the people have to clean up the mess when they legal spew all over ever citizen who trust them to do the right thing? How many of us have come to know a edgewod pig by having to clean up the filth delivered by them. I wish they would all eat shit n die and carry their own rags?