A Monday afternoon fire proved costly to a local farmer, who lost equipment and crops to a blaze in his field on Old Smithville Hwy.
North Warren Fire Department (NWFD) was dispatched to a reported fire involving a tractor and a baler in a hay field Monday around 3 p.m., near the intersection of Old and New Smithville Hwy at property belonging to longtime nurseryman Derwood Stewart.
Tractor, baler destroyed by fire