Destructive Fire on Hall County Farm

CAIRO, Neb. -- Around 3:30 Tuesday afternoon, the Wood River and Cairo fire departments responded to a call on 190th Road.

"One of the neighbors noticed some heavy black smoke coming away from his farm so he drove over here, found out that there was a structure on fire and he called 911," said Brian Urbom, assistant chief of the Wood River Fire Department.

When crews arrived on the scene they found four farm sheds engulfed in flames but the farmhouse survived.

"I figured it was the house, I really did because there is no electricity in that building and I just couldn't figure out what started it, I figured the house was going," said Larry Hadenfeldt, the father of the property owner.

Although the main property is still completely in tact, the sheds and their contents are a complete loss.

"Reality hit in and all of our equipment was in there so I guess we have to start looking for new equipment," Hadenfeldt added.

Several small sheds like the farm property, Hadenfeldt feels lucky that the flames didn't spread to any more structures.

Hadenfeldt continued, "It's just lucky these other ones didn't catch on fire, well that old chicken house did. We had some equipment stored in some other building and it's just lucky it didn't get to them, thanks to the guys,"

The property owner declined to speak on camera but his father summed up the feelings of the parties involved, "Well nobody got hurt of course, I'm glad nobody got hurt and it didn't get any worse than what it did, we can replace any equipment, we can't replace people."

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