By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Fire investigator Ted McCarty said yesterday there were actually two dairy farm fires in Lewis County recently.
Misty Morning Dairy in Onalaska lost a tractor and tons of hay on Thanksgiving night, but a dairy in Randle faced a fire inside its milking parlor a week earlier, according to McCarty.
As an employee was bringing in the cows at Cowlitz Meadows Dairy on Skinner Road on Nov. 16, he noticed hay in the loft above was on fire, McCarty said.
A bale had fallen against a lighting fixture, according to McCarty. It was quickly put out and no cows were lost, he said.
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