A Minnesota farmer lost about 12,000 bushels of corn during a grain bin fire that smoldered for more than a week before it was put out on Monday. Local reports near Dover, Minnesota, say one day after finishing harvest in his fields, owner Brian LaBare found smoke coming from his grain dryer on Monday, November 3. “We had just finished the field on a Sunday and came back Monday morning to see smoke coming out of the top,” he said. “I tried to turn the augers on, but everything was frozen up.” The cause of the fire is suspected to be the faulty gearbox of the bin’s auger that began the fire. The bins had just been installed last spring and had already passed inspection. “The seat of the fire was so low that it actually took an excavator to finally suppress the fire for good,” said local Fire Chief Ryan Pike.
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