STELLA – Calloway County Fire-Rescue extinguished a tobacco barn fire in the Stella community Friday night, preventing further damage to surrounding structures.

According to CCFR, firefighters were dispatched to the 1700 block of Rob Mason Road near the Stella community just after 9 p.m. Friday for a report of a tobacco barn on fire. Dispatchers also advised that the 911 caller stated the barn was fully involved, with flames coming through the roof. Upon arrival, CCFR units found an approximately four-acre tobacco barn on fire on the edge of an unharvested soybean field with a house and large shop nearby.

“Due to the barn already being fully engulfed in flames and the limited supply of water available, our firefighters went on a defensive attack to protect the surrounding structures and

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