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Fire, collapse destroys grain bins |
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From staff reports
Posted: 10:02 AM EST Tuesday January 3, 2006
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Fifty thousand bushels of soybeans and 300,000 bushels of corn spilled from collapsed grain storage bins near Little Baltimore about 2 a.m. Tuesday.
Officials at this time are unsure whether the collapse was caused by a fire at a nearby small wooden office building, or if the collapse triggered the fire. The bins are owned by Coharie Farms.
Emergency crews from North Lenoir Fire Department and La Grange were still working at the disaster site at 8 a.m. They brought in equipment to stabilize grain elevators, which were hanging dangerously in the air.
Firefighters were notified about the blaze by a cell phone call to 911 at 2 a.m.
A woman at Cohaire’s Clinton office said she did not know the cause of the fire and had been told not to comment on it.
A man who lives near the site speculated that Monday night’s storm toppled one of the grain bins and, as it fell, it knocked down a power line that set fire to the office building.
Cohaire Farms has been reported as being one of the nation’s top 30 pork producers in the U.S.
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