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Firefighters respond to large haystack on fire in Denair area

A large haystack caught fire Monday in the Denair Fire Protection District.

Details on the exact location and size of the blaze were not immediately available. The neighboring Turlock Fire Department reported in a Facebook post that it was assisting.

The fire was amid stacked bales of hay and near piles of dairy feed kept under tarpaulins.

This story was originally published August 12, 2019 at 4:29 PM.

John Holland
The Modesto Bee
John Holland covers agriculture, transportation and general assignment news. He has been with The Modesto Bee since 2000 and previously worked at newspapers in Sonora and Visalia. He was born and raised in San Francisco and has a journalism degree from UC Berkeley.
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