(KNSI) — The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fire inside a barn Wednesday morning.
According to a press release from the sheriff’s office, a call came in around 1:15 for a fire inside an empty hog barn in Oak Grove Township, just north of New Munich.
When the deputy arrived, they found flames coming through the roof of the building. The barn owner arrived a short time later and told the deputy the barn had been sprayed with formaldehyde on Monday.
Fire crews from Melrose and Freeport responded to the blaze. No one was hurt.
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