While Dawn Mock and her family pick up the pieces, the community of local dairy farmers are working to look out for one of their own.

“It’s been overwhelming,” Mock said. “The community, our neighbors, the farmers, the firefighters. They’ve been great to us.

Community members stepped up after an emotional day for the Mocks — their dairy barn, located on Powell Road in Penn Township, burned down in a large fire Wednesday morning, Oct. 22. Alan Troyer, chief of the Penn Township Volunteer Fire Department, said the structure was a total loss.

First reported around 9:30 a.m., the fire grew big enough that black smoke could be seen from miles away over the tree line.

“My husband and I stepped out for a little bit while our son was finishing milking the cows,” Mock said. “I texted him asking

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