On March 6, 2025, at approximately 12:01 p.m., the Stearns County Emergency Communications Center received a call for a building fire at 34402 370th Street in Grove Township. The owner, Jonathon Klaphake, 38, of Melrose, advised he could see smoke coming from a turkey barn on the property and that there was a skid loader on fire inside the building.
No people or animals were in the building at the time of the fire. The Melrose Fire Department was assisted on scene by the Freeport Fire Department, the Sauk Centre Fire Department, Melrose Ambulance, and the Melrose Police Department.
The owner had been spreading fresh bedding in the barn prior to the fire with the skid loader.
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