(KNSI) — One tractor and the shed it was in were heavily damaged by fire Monday morning.
According to the Stearns County Sheriff’s Department, the call came in at 11:26 a.m. for the blaze at a home in Eden Lake Township. A man arrived there and noticed flames coming from the side of the enclosed cab Ford tractor. It was inside a 30×54′ canvas hoop shed, which had also caught. Two other tractors parked nearby were damaged.
The owner said he had plugged the tractor in the night before.
No one was hurt.
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