More than two dozen firefighters responded to fire on Danby Drive Southwest. / Courtesy photo by Bryan Fisher
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A large former chicken barn and its contents were destroyed by fire last night east of Grand Mound.
Nobody was injured but members of six fire departments joined Thurston County Fire District 12 to answer the call that came in just before 11 p.m.
Crews responding to the 17900 block of Danby Drive Southwest found the approximately 250-foot-long metal sided building fully involved in flames, District 12 Battalion Chief Jim Fowler said.
They fought the fire defensively with as many as 25 personnel working until about 1:40 a.m., Fowler said.
An engine and two firefighters remained on the scene today, watching and taking care of hot spots in and around the collapsed building, according to Fowler.
“Every bit of the wood burned away, but the metal is still all screwed together,” he said.
Fowler said the structure was last used for raising fryer chickens probably in the late 1980s, and contained two tractors, various farm implements and as many as eight passenger vehicles.
The cause is unknown, he said, as the barn was said to have no electricity running to it.
Items such a vehicles and farm equipment stored inside were ruined. / Courtesy photo by Bryan Fisher
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Is this the same place they were having rosters fights?