Firefighters spent most of the day Thursday at the scene of a fire that destroyed about 300 tons of hay at a dairy farm in east Vancouver.
Firefighters rushed to the scene of the blaze at Andersen Dairy, 4507 N.E. 162nd Ave., just before 5 a.m. Thursday.
Crews extinguished the flames, but fire crews were kept busy throughout the morning and into the afternoon extinguishing smoldering hay.
“The fire burrows down … it smolders, and it’s really hard to put out,” Clark County Deputy Fire Marshal Curtis Eavenson said. “Crews are having to tear the pile of hay bales apart with heavy equipment.”
