..can create…a barn fire…well almost…last week Sullivan answered a page for a house fire, assisting Bourbon Fire District, and the address given was on Butler Pond Road, between Sullivan and Bourbon, however the address given was wrong. After making two extra trips up the road, the right information was given by radio and we drove up the driveway to an abandoned farmhouse and barn to find the hayloft in the upper story of the barn ablaze and tall grass  outside the barn on fire as well. The Sullivan pumper crew, with several junior firefighters on board, pulled the hoseline and attacked the tall grass and discarded furniture burning near the barn….

…while Bourbon`s crews attacked the hayloft fire in the barn and debris on fire outside the barn loft….

…of a nice old barn, dating back at least sixty to eighty years old or more to the days of the Nolie Farm family from what I was told, prior to the days owned and operated by Meramac Nursery….