A burning tractor resulted in firefighters from Gardiner and several surrounding communities springing into action to hold the line on a devastating fire Tuesday night, November 11. A massive amount of equipment, including several tractors, were lost along with a pole barn, but no injuries are reported and the farm stand on Route 208 was open for business Wednesday morning.

Meghan Boylan, a family member who was answering the phone Wednesday morning, was incredibly grateful that the 75 volunteers were able to keep the fire just to that one building. According to information released by Gardiner fire officers, when firefighters arrived just after 8 on Tuesday night, they “found a tractor fully involved in fire beneath an overhang of an approximately 80-by-100-foot equipment barn containing

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