DUNDEE, Mich. — Firefighters are dousing a fire that engulfed a collapsed metal building tonight, what remained of a structure that stored 40,000 hay and straw bales on Ann Arbor Road near M-50.
Flames and smoke from the large building could be seen after 8 p.m. by passing motorists on U.S. 23, to the west.
Dundee Township, Summerfield Township, Milan, Ida, and London-Maybee-Raisinville fire departments responded.
Terry Massingill, assistant Dundee fire chief, said that firefighters were working to control the blaze and keep it from spreading to woods nearby.
There were no reports of injury. Paramedics were on scene as a precaution.
Tyler Salada of Shinglehouse, Pa., said he leased the building and another on the property to store hay and straw bales. He said he’d noticed smoke from the east end of the building after 8 p.m. Within minutes, the building was engulfed in flames.
Smoke was reportedly visible on the other side of the county in Frenchtown Township, north of the city of Monroe.
Throughout the evening, passersby dropped off cases of water for the firefighters.
Dundee is 25 miles north of Toledo.
First Published August 5, 2016, 1:39 a.m.