The ingredients were in place for potential disaster.
Instead, some quick reactions by volunteers Tuesday helped save Dennis Kuykendall’s barn from a fire.
Kuykendall had been working on his farm, about three miles south of LaHarpe, and was burning wood scraps.
“The fire was almost out even,” Kuykendall said.
However, burning embers landed on the roof of a nearby barn.
A passing motorist spotted the barn on fire and alerted Kuykendall to the fact.
Volunteer firefighters from LaHarpe and rural departments from Humboldt and LaHarpe, as well as a handful of volunteers from B&W Trailer Hitches in Humboldt, arrived at varying times to help douse the flames before the fire could spread.
Kuykendall said the barn’s contents — lumber and other garage equipment — were spared.
There were no injuries.
Barn fire contained
