Barn destroyed in fire near Pine Lake
A barn has been destroyed but thankfully no injuries following a farm fire in the Pine Lake area on Thursday.
Red Deer County Fire Inspector Scott Tuton says crews were called out to the structure fire on Township Road 374 shortly before 10:00 a.m., where they were later joined by firefighters from Delburne.
“When we got on scene it was a fully involved barn fire with a propane tank being threatened,” says Tuton. “The propane tank was surrounded by fire, so our first priority was to get that cooled-off so we didn’t have an explosion. Once the other crews got there, we started doing the rest of the attack on the exterior of the building.”
Tuton notes it took 16 firefighters with five trucks a couple of hours to put the blaze out.