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Austin(WI) 
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 Topic: My Folks’ Barn Fire of ‘87
Posted: 28 Apr 2022 at 8:33am |
Thought I would share this. In addition to blogging about AC, I do quite a bit of my family history. This happened a few years before my grand entrance on earth. It was a story I knew little about before K sat down and started talking to my folks. I can’t imagine the pressure they were under after this happened. Click Here
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 28 Apr 2022 at 9:05am |
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Great story Austin ........ that will be a BOOK your family can read forever.
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Lars(wi)
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Posted: 28 Apr 2022 at 10:39am |
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Great read Austin. Knew a few families that had barn fires over the years. I grew up just west of Madison, out in the Township of Middleton. Worked for the ‘corporate farm’ that bought the farm Grandpa owned, and where Dad was born.
After 8 yrs or so, went and worked for neighbor for 2 1/2 yrs., then on to other things.
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 28 Apr 2022 at 11:05am |
My Grandfathers barn burnt and they blamed it on a bird carrying a cigarette into the hay mow. Many years later at their mother's funeral the kids admitted to their father that they were smoking corn silk and started the fire.
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Ray54
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Posted: 28 Apr 2022 at 11:35am |
Thanks for the look into your family, and the AC connection.
 Sure glad I don't have cigarette smoking birds here.  Bad enough with cars spitting carbon. Four fires started on the side of the road burned on the ranch in my lifetime. Cal Fire always has a investigator out with a magnet looking for carbon. That has always been their reason for these fires.  I don't know if that is the whole story, but never a real arson device with a cigarette and other materials. As 30 years ago had bunch of for sure arson fire in the county. |
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thendrix
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Posted: 28 Apr 2022 at 3:47pm |
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Nana and pawpaw had a chicken house burn one night. We all laughed and joked a little while we stood there and watched it burn but there was definitely sadness in their eyes. Luckily they were heating the houses and getting ready for birds rather than having birds in there. They blamed it on a rat chewing wiring but I don't know. Don't really think they did either
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"Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan
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Stan IL&TN
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Posted: 28 Apr 2022 at 8:50pm |
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Great story Austin, thanks for sharing it with us.
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1957 WD45 dad's first AC
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Dorix
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Posted: 29 Apr 2022 at 12:07pm |
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Your dad didn't happen to work at Waupun Correctional did he? Our careers with the doc would have overlapped by about a year or so, as I transferred to the doc and got assigned to WCI in 03.
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Austin(WI)
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Posted: 01 May 2022 at 5:07am |
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My Dad work at Fox Lake Correctional for a couple of years, and then he transferred for Waupun Prison Farm for the rest of his tenure. My brother worked at Dodge Correctional for 10-12 years and then got out.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 02 May 2022 at 1:56am |
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thanks Austin...i enjoyed reading and looking at the pics. kinda mixed in what i'm going thru right now.
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