West Shelby VFD Responds to Hay Roll on Fire

May 30, 2019 - The West Shelby Volunteer Fire Department responded to a hay roll on fire in a hay meadow Tuesday, May 28, 2019 at 6:26pm on County Road 1171 with a tanker truck and two grass trucks.

A faulty bearing on the baler was the cause of the fire. Dustin Hughes contained the fire until the fire department arrived and then he used the forks on the tractor to unroll the hay while the fire department saturated the hay with water. Frankie Anthony, a neighbor near the property, finished rolling the remaining hay with his baler.

The fire department finished and was back in service at 7:20pm.