Firefighters had a tough one late Saturday night when thousands of bushels of corn from the recent fall harvest in Michigan’s Great Southwest went up in smoke inside a steel silo on a Bangor Township farm. In fact, they had to use an aerial truck to reach the metal roof in order to cut a hole through the steel to get water to the stubborn fire.
South Haven Area Emergency Services firefighters provided mutual aid to the Bangor Community Fire Department Saturday night when that corn storage silo at a farm located on 68th Street caught fire.
Authorities from the South Haven Area Emergency Services indicate that a malfunctioning corn-drying mechanism was the apparent cause of the blaze which proved to be tough to extinguish.
The silo contained approximately 6,000 bushels of corn, and firefighters on South Haven’s Ladder One aerial truck had to cut through the metal roof in order to get to the burning corn silage.
The photo accompanying this story on Moody on the Market is courtesy of the South Haven Area Emergency Services team that reported to the scene in Bangor Township.
