The Log Hill Volunteer Fire Department extinguished a haystack fire that burned for more than 13 hours overnight on Snow Bush Drive.
After responding to the fire at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, firefighters were on the scene until Thursday morning.
"It was a huge store of hay," Assistant Chief Tom Austin said. "Once the fire gets into the hay, you have to get machinery to pull it apart and put water on it and pull it apart more and more." He estimated the storage area was about 30 feet wide and 100 feet long.
Due to the amount of damage at the site, it's difficult to determine what started the fire, Austin said. "There was a significant lightning storm that happened, so that is a possibility," he said.
About 15 members of the Log Hill department responded, and Montrose Fire helped for about two hours with initial containment, Austin said.